Re:Jonathan Blow on Societal Collapse (2019)
by cxr on Saturday August 27, 2022 @06:00AM
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> We should take a page out of the semiconductor industry's book
I see this sentiment by programmers often. Programmers often have a naive/romantic view of what the semiconductor industry is like. If you've experienced how inefficient the meatspace operations alone are regarding what goes on to bring semiconductors into existence, even by meatspace standards, you'd wish you were surrounded by the kinds of peers who were dumping bloaty-by-nature Electron apps on the world. (That's before we even get to the software that those engineering orgs are cobbling together themselves, for a more direct comparison.)
I see this sentiment by programmers often. Programmers often have a naive/romantic view of what the semiconductor industry is like. If you've experienced how inefficient the meatspace operations alone are regarding what goes on to bring semiconductors into existence, even by meatspace standards, you'd wish you were surrounded by the kinds of peers who were dumping bloaty-by-nature Electron apps on the world. (That's before we even get to the software that those engineering orgs are cobbling together themselves, for a more direct comparison.)