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MHLoppy

@ MHLoppy @fedia.io

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Currently studying CS and some other stuff. Best known for previously being top 50 (OCE) in LoL, expert RoN modder, and creator of RoN:EE's community patch (CBP). He/him.

(header photo by Brian Maffitt)

  • What's the status on Wikipedia donations?

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  • Before posting I read the recent annual reports which she advertises having a hand in as part a push for greater transparency, but was still left very unsatisfied personally (half the budget -- over $90 mil -- just hand-waved away as "infrastructure" spending? Really?). So despite being an improvement, I didn't feel that the CEO change has had much effect on the scales of "donate vs not". Perhaps for others it might, but my comment still reflects my best judgement.

  • Is AMD fabbing at Intel Foundry? [no]

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  • What's the status on Wikipedia donations?

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  • I simultaneously believe that Wikipedia is valuable and that it's not clear that WMF needed $185 million dollars.

    As far as I can tell the situation has not significantly changed since "the last time(s)" this was discussed. Wikipedia remains a valuable resource, and WMF continues to aggressively increase both spending and fundraising revenue. Whether you think that means you should donate or not is probably the same answer as it was several years ago for most individuals based on personal preferences.

    edit: typo

  • ASUS rolls out ProArt PA401 Wood Edition Beige cases

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  • Seems like a surprising amount of extra effort to change (and match!) all the colors for what I assume is a niche variation of an already pretty low-volume product.

    Makes me wish this amount of effort was made more often for colors other than beige lol.

  • Is AMD fabbing at Intel Foundry? [no]

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  • Nerissa's dad finds out chat loves MamaRissa too much (clip)

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  • Ao-kun graduates today

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  • o7

  • How do you call this in your langage?

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  • It's fine, it's mostly just a federated software problem. For people on lemmy they can see the image itself in the UI.

  • Ted Cruz verbatim says, “let’s stop attacking pedophiles”

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  • Tribalism is a hell of a drug

  • How do you call this in your langage?

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  • Judge dismisses Arm's last legal claim against Qualcomm

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  • Using an arm wrestle picture for a legal battle with ARM seems about the right tone match for The Register tbf

  • Taiwan pressured to move 50% of chip production to US or lose protection

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  • I thought about posting the second report to !hardware@lemmy.world but it felt like a borderline fit and it's from 2023 so I went "eh" ¯(ツ)_/¯

  • Taiwan pressured to move 50% of chip production to US or lose protection

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  • Well curiosity got the better of me, and the best sources I could find in ~an hour of researching suggest that they import most of the raw materials. For example, this report cites a Taiwanese source (written in Chinese), claiming:

    According to statistics in the second quarter of 2022, the self-sufficiency rate of semiconductor manufacturing materials in Taiwan is 1 percent in front-end manufacturing and 15 percent in back-end manufacturing.

    I don't know what exactly goes into those figures, but this overview of the supply chain for semiconductors suggests that most of the raw silicon comes from not-Taiwan which is then also refined in not-Taiwan before it makes its way to TSMC-and-co.

    Three products are used as raw materials to produce wafers in step 1: high-purity silicon, silicon carbide, and germanium. If we look at the trade balance of raw materials per country, we find that Germany is the top net exporter and China the largest net importer (see Figure 7). Germany has this position thanks to high-purity silicon exports, which have the highest trading value of the three raw materials. Although silicon is the second-most abundant element (by mass) on Earth after oxygen, there are only a few deposits that can be used for high-tech applications, mainly quartz deposits (chemical: silicon dioxide). High-quality quartz sands are widespread in Germany, as reported by the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR).

    A third of global high-purity silicon exports comes from Germany (the German company Wacker Chemie is one of the largest producers worldwide), and more than 70% of German silicon exports goes to China. Although China is one of the world’s major purified industrial silicon producers (7 of the 10 largest polysilicon manufacturers in 2020 were from China), it still imports a sizable amount and is the largest net importer of high-purity silicon. The US also exports a large share of silicon (a quarter of all exports), and Hemlock, based in the US, is one of the largest polysilicon manufacturers.

    Of the other raw materials, China exports the largest share, with 35% of global germanium exports and 38% of global silicon carbide exports.

    Silicon and other semiconductor raw materials are melted and cast in the form of a large cylinder called an ingot and then sliced into wafers (ASML). Wafers are then used to create the integrated circuits in step 2. By comparing the trade balance of wafers with that of raw materials, we can see that the top net importers of raw materials are also the top net exporters of wafers, confirming that countries like Japan and China import raw materials for the production of wafers.

    These wafers are then mostly imported by Taiwan, followed by South Korea (see Figure 9). Trade data also shows that Southeast Asia plays an active role in the semiconductor industry. While more advanced front-end chip production is centered in Taiwan and South Korea, back-end assembly is centered in Southeast Asia.

    I know that that's not Taiwan-specific data but I wasn't able to find any source saying that Taiwan had a lot of high quality raw silicon to work with.

    Looking at the supply chain for this is actually pretty interesting - I had no idea Germany was an important source of raw materials for example o_o

  • Taiwan pressured to move 50% of chip production to US or lose protection

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  • The reason TSMC is in Taiwan in the first place is their sand is particularly good for making silicon wafers.

    Are you sure this is the case? I've never heard of this before and was under the impression that raw materials were largely imported for the manufacturing processes. Is it possible you got mixed up with something else?

  • It's official: EA is going private.

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  • This is a genuine question and not a passive aggressive one: why make the submission a link to a social media post when that post is mostly just a link to a news site anyway? (you could include link to or even quote the commentary either in the submission body or a comment if you think it's a valuable addition)

    edit: has since been answered in another comment orz, I opened this and then was talking to people for a while before commenting

  • 5 years later (by BlaParky aka Fünfundzwanzig)

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  • 😭

    (yeah I know she's doing Other Things™ but it ruins the meme)

  • Ah that's whats going on

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  • Fwiw I also think using it the "wrong" way is perfectly defensible - I'm okay with things evolving beyond their original context!

  • Ah that's whats going on

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  • The original context of the scene that the image comes from is that he (Spiderman) originally needed glasses, but didn't after gaining his powers - so putting them on with his now-fixed eyesight actually causes the blur: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qj7CXKwPfdc

    Because the intuitive understanding without the context is as you've described, memes using this template often reverse it so that putting on the glasses is the good/clear image and without the glasses is the bad/blurry image.

  • Ah that's whats going on

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  • The relatively rare "correct" use of the meme template!