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scarface_74 commented on U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel   cnbc.com/2025/08/22/intel... · Posted by u/givemeethekeys
poslathian · 17 hours ago
Given the circumstances and the relatively low dollars involved, it would be interesting to see the experiment: $10B darpa program to establish a scalable fab ecosystem in 5 years via consortium.

This was how the internet was created, darpa stitched together dozens of performers to get the key ingredients (eg bbn gateways, academic subnets, experimental applications, protocol research.

They even led the last ditch marketing Hail Mary after years of no-one caring about the program besides the zillions of engineers from all around building it by organizing a press day in a hotel ballroom for a demo day.

As a taxpayer I’d strongly support 5B/.1% of the fed budget for a few years just to learn what happens in the attempt.

scarface_74 · 8 hours ago
$5B wouldn’t be nearly enough to create a leading edge fab. Estimated cost for TSMC is $20B.

China has been trying and failing to build a competitive fab for years, has the rare earth minerals in its back yard, etc and can’t do it.

The second issue is, who exactly is going to use these fabs once they are built. One issue that Intel has is that its “customer service” sucks. TSMC will bend over backwards as a partner. No one wants to work with Intel.

Can you imagine Apple or Nvidia wanting to work with a government owned chip fab?

scarface_74 commented on U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel   cnbc.com/2025/08/22/intel... · Posted by u/givemeethekeys
andrewflnr · 20 hours ago
"Someone's garage" is a straw man. There must be people here who could, with adequate funding, build a smallish but viable chip manufacturing company.
scarface_74 · 20 hours ago
There is no such thing as a “smallish” chip manufacturer that can manufacture leading edge chips. It’s about scale.

If it were that easy, Apple, Amazon, Google AMD, Nvidia, etc who all design their own chips would have done it.

scarface_74 commented on Florida lawmaker floats ban on HOAs amid growing backlash   tampabay28.com/news/state... · Posted by u/bilsbie
NegativeK · a day ago
I'd be super happy if the local government managed the infrastructure and shared spaces of our neighborhood. But they can't raise the taxes to do so, so HOAs end up being the smaller government that people say they want but, in practice, get zero participation from the residents and can turn into shit shows.
scarface_74 · 20 hours ago
So taxpayers should be responsible for infrastructure that can only be used by owners of houses in the neighborhood?
scarface_74 commented on U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel   cnbc.com/2025/08/22/intel... · Posted by u/givemeethekeys
bigyabai · a day ago
The government support should have come in the form of a real competitor. Intel got this way because they had no competition - nobody thought a domestic EULV manufacturer would be an American prerogative in 20 years. All the customers for dense silicon were fine importing it from Taiwan.

Pouring more money into a proven dumpster fire won't put out the fire. This is the protectionist just-desert of refusing to regulate the top-dog competitors into a position where they're afraid to rest on their laurels. If we want an American lithography powerhouse, buying Intel stock rewards exactly the wrong incentives.

scarface_74 · 20 hours ago
So tell me your plan that would create a competitor for Intel from scratch that could be making decent chips in 5 years? 10 years?
scarface_74 commented on U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel   cnbc.com/2025/08/22/intel... · Posted by u/givemeethekeys
coldpie · 21 hours ago
Doesn't this create an incentive for the US Gov't to boost Intel and harm their competitors? That seems not great to me from a competition & healthy markets standpoint.
scarface_74 · 21 hours ago
What competitors?
scarface_74 commented on U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel   cnbc.com/2025/08/22/intel... · Posted by u/givemeethekeys
charliea0 · 21 hours ago
We can definitely offer subsidies for manufacturing in the US - we've already gotten TSMC to open several fabs.
scarface_74 · 21 hours ago
And it’s still owned by a foreign country and Taiwan is restricting TSMC from manufacturing their most advanced processors from being manufactured in the US.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/ta...

scarface_74 commented on Florida lawmaker floats ban on HOAs amid growing backlash   tampabay28.com/news/state... · Posted by u/bilsbie
scarface_74 · a day ago
I lived in an HOA community for eight years and I have mixed feelings. So many things can go wrong without one - old cars in the front yard, political signs (I don’t care what your political persuasion is they are tacky), yard not being kept.

HOAs suck. But so do people. As another poster said, there are shared responsibility parts in some neighborhoods like pools, gyms, tennis courts etc

scarface_74 commented on Show HN: OS X Mavericks Forever   mavericksforever.com/... · Posted by u/Wowfunhappy
Wowfunhappy · 2 days ago
> There is also another layer: when SIPS was introduced, there were tons of articles and videos teaching people to turn it off when they shouldn’t.

...see, I actually had the opposite frustration with SIP. So many people were so hesitant to turn it off, even when they had a clear use case.

This is where the argument looses me. I agree that it's good to protect people from screwing up by accident. But if someone has taken the time to reboot their computer into recovery mode, find the Terminal app, and run a very specific command, that is not an accident! That is a user clearly requesting that the training wheels be removed. And sure, maybe the user was following bad advice, but it wasn't an accident!

People are allowed to do stupid things, that's how we learn. Again, it's great to have guardrails for people who want them, and it's great to have those guardrails on by default for people who don't want to think about them or even know they exist. But deciding which users are savvy enough to be worthy of disabling SIP feels Gatekeepy to me.

scarface_74 · 2 days ago
Until you install a piece of niche software that corrupts your entire system when installing it with SIP turned off…

https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/15235262/chrome-upd...

scarface_74 commented on In the long run, LLMs make us dumber   desunit.com/blog/in-the-l... · Posted by u/speckx
sitzkrieg · 2 days ago
thats kinda embarrassing
scarface_74 · 2 days ago
I don’t get paid to “write code”. I use my 30 years of professional industry experience to either make the company money or to save the company money and in exchange for my labor, they put money in my account and formerly RSUs in my brokerage account.

It’s not about “passion”. It’s purely transactional and I will use any tool that is available to me to do it.

If an LLM can make me more efficient at that so be it. I’m also not spending months getting a server room built out to hold a SAN that can store a whopping 3TB of storage like in 2002. I write 4 lines of Yaml to provision an S3 bucket.

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