Anon ponders modern magic

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• Muffi@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  “extremely rare” is a way of saying second most common that I haven’t heard before.

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  • fidodo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The rare stone thing would be better for nuclear power. Find lots of rare stone, put it together in a huge pile, they get warm and cause mysterious diseases.

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    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Uranium is actually pretty common, refining out the right isotope is the complicated part. Heck there were natural nuclear reactors in a couple places that generated power for a few million years.

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  • herrvogel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Silicon is just the base material. It gets treated with a whole bunch of chemicals that work as dopants, and those are made of much rarer stuff than silicon.

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  • JayDee@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Sure, Silicon works as a cheap base. Boron, phosphorus, arsenic and antimony are also used in the process, though. Other elements are also finding use in the process.

    There is also a minor step in the middle. When scribing process is happening, the other elements are embedded into or deposited onto the substrate between ‘scribings’.

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  • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I don’t think they mean silicon, they mean gold.

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    • Rodeo@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Gold also isn’t all that rare. It’s value is so high because of jewelry marketing, not rarity.

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  • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Technically correct but just cause there are minerals in the ground doesn’t mean they can be extracted.

    Maybe i am wrong but i keep hearing about silicon being harder to come, i suppose op was specifically speaking about the silicon usable for computing.

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    • kameecoding@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      silicon being harder to come

      interesting silicone usually makes it easier for me to come

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    • TheChurn@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The form of silicon used in semiconductor manufacturing, specific formations of sand, is becoming harder to source from the environment. Silicon the element is incredibly abundant - the vast majority of all rocks on Earth are silicates - so there isn't a risk that we run out of silicon itself any time soon.

      What may happen, in several decades, is an increase in price due to the need to process more abundant rocks to obtain pure silicon.

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• MustrumR@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The masks used in litography to compensate distortion of details smaller than wavelength are pretty much at the point of being magic circles.
  https://www10.edacafe.com/blogs/editorial/files/2023/03/nvidia.png

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  • Gonzako@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Care to eli5 what you’re talking about?

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    • p1mrx@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Here’s a presentation: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAB6Xh8L1kk

      They’re basically generating weird patterns that manipulate light to project a very precise shadow.

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  • TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    reminds me of this insanity youtu.be/wk67eGXtbIw

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    • PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Did YT decide to suggest this to you recently?

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• Numerol@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Praise the Omnissiah

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  • Rekonok@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    From the decay of our flesh Fortnite Porn comfort us

    Blessed be the machine

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    • arin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      If we make it to the next century, yes praise the mechs

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• Sprokes@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Out of the loop? I know that China is no longer allowing export of rare metals, did the situation escalate?

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  • Lux@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The image is from 2022, so i doubt your missing any recent news

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