alt Hacker NewsThis feels like more a matter of scale than anything else? We’re able as a species to do some absolutely insane wizard shit elsewhere (chip fab?), we just haven’t launched enough rockets yet to get there.
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ceejayoz • today at 10:44 AM
A significant part of stuff like chip fabs is a controlled environment.
Which is tough with rockets.
tsukikage • today at 7:08 AM
Flagship chip yields are generally less than 50%. Over half the chips coming out are dead on arrival, and never leave the fab. Imagine if rockets had that sort of failure rate.
tonyhart7 • today at 6:33 AM
the differences is rocket failure is blow up while chip design is salvageable
Less than perfect chips are printed every day but the consequences of a less than optimal chip is ending up in a cheaper laptop vs. causing a big boom. I think we are doing wizard shit in rocketry, mistakes are just very loud.
Definitely unexpected from BO, knowing that everyone is okay, I feel for their engineers right now.