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  • China bans export of rare earths processing tech over national security

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  • Again, not a military expert, but have you been living under a rock for several years and missed this whole Ukrainian "special military operation"?

    Russia's hyped Kinzhal missiles, which promised to defeat air defence systems and be manoeverable at supersonic speeds are being shot down by 80's era surface to air missiles. And I don't think anyone has been in a position to assess China's capabilities in the matter and I have no interest in discussing your beliefs.

    Edit: forgot to say this really has nothing to do with advanced lithography, anyways…

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  • And what does that have to do with advanced lithography? I'm not some military expert and I doubt you are either so why waste your time spreading your unsubstantiated beliefs?

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  • Whatever people's estimations, we've yet to see this progress that you are talking about. It's an interesting race for sure.

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  • EUV is complex. And more so than the accomplishments you mentioned: nuclear weapons were cracked in the 1940's, probe moon landings in the 50's and space stations in the 70's. All have since been reproduced by several nations in isolation. That is not the case of state of the art lithography. No single nation "owns" it because it truly is a multinational endeavor.

    (And actual hypersonic missiles haven't made it to the battlefield, and 5G is about commoditization and standardization, by the ITU, an organ of the united nations, so I'm not sure exactly how that adds to your rhetoric)

    smuglord

    Way to put your ignorance on display.

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  • Ok, but what the heck does that reply have to do with anything?

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  • You obviously fall into the trap of believing that hard science cares about politics, and that money thrown at problems as part of national strategic planning magically solves them. But for anyone else legitimately interested in understanding the topic better and having a glimpse at its complexity, those are great resources:

    If the above is too advanced, this can serve as a good primer and answers "how the heck did we get there": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pt9NEnWmyMo

    Also, I never wrote that China will never get to EUV (or eventually something beyond that), just that it will take a very long time, because the complexity is spread across several very distinct scientific disciplines, integrating them is a challenge of its own (again, watch the videos), and packaging this into a system that meets the scale and reliability requirements to make it commercially viable hasn't been reproduced to date.

  • Why do people not understand that you can agree with one thing someone said or did while disagreeing with the majority of what they stand for?

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  • I mean, the internet was fine until the advent of global "engagement-driven social networks" that practically became filter bubbles optimizing for ads delivery, then echo chambers for political gain, down to self-sustained propaganda machines for geopolitical sabotage. Early internet felt like village-scale communities centered around a single purpose/interests where people came in the first place to contribute something or help each other. Trolls did exist but there was no tolerance for them because the absence of centralization meant they didn't have to be accepted there in the first place.

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  • Yup, though you are comparing 19th century tech to cutting edge tech: the PRC isn't going to crack EUV lithography on its own any time soon

  • QNAP NAS Remote Access with WireGuard VPN

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  • Would be nice to be able to run WG on the NAS directly and not need a server, wouldn't it? I believe there are a few go/rust userspace WG servers out there but I don't know if anyone's using them for anything like that.

  • Windows 10 end of life could prompt torrent of e-waste as 240 million devices set for scrapheap | ITPro

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  • What is "old arse" to you might be blazing fast and great for someone else (potentially in a less fortunate area of this world), and besides that, no matter your or my sensobilities, if it works, it works and should be kept that way as long as it has a purpose and the hardware permits it.

  • PeerTube stress tests: resilience lies in your peers!

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  • Except for a marginal fraction of the top YouTubers, aren't most of them getting paid to inject sponsored links and from donations/patronage these days? It seems that the deal you are referring to has been off the table for a majority of YouTubers for a very long time now, and I don't see why other platforms wouldn't be as good, or even healthier than YouTube to provide them that kind of revenue.

  • Séisme dans le commerce mondial : la Chine interdit l'exportation de technologies liées aux métaux stratégiques

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  • Ça dépend de ce dont il est question ici, mais une raison première pour laquelle la Chine exporte autant de terres "rares" est pour des raisons de pollution (que les pays riches aiment outsourcer, de préférence là où les prérogatives environmentally sont quasiment inexistantes) que pour des raisons technologiques ou d'accès à la matière première

  • China bans export of rare earths processing tech over national security

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  • No better way to boost diversion, and probably a net win for the planet considering how dirty and environmentally harmful the rare earth supply chain is today.

  • Unison | A friendly, statically-typed, functional programming language from the future · Unison programming language

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  • unison is currently the closest to showing how it is actually done

    What makes you say that? As far as I'm aware, even the theoretical soundness of it isn't a done deal (this is a harder nut to crack than e.g. rust's borrow checker)

    Overall, I think one of 2 things will happen:

    In this niche, perhaps, I don't believe any of those will gain mainstream adoption (though I hope I'm wrong)

  • Sharp corner algorithm

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  • I get that but your original sketch seemed to be showing smaller and smaller radiuses shaping the edge, which necessarily implies thinner and thinner layers. Now I fail to see what's different from what sliders currently do.

  • Sharp corner algorithm

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  • So you would need different later heights around the edges just to stack those ever thinner lines? How do you think this will interact with the rest of the print?

  • Unison | A friendly, statically-typed, functional programming language from the future · Unison programming language

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  • Sorry if it came that way :)