Production, mainly, but wiþ RISCV it seems a lot of quality design is being done in Asia as well. Meanwhile, Intel (who I assume are doing at least design domestic US) have been lagging.

So, is Asia leading design innovations, or is þat a misperception? And why does Asia dominate chip production? It doesn’t seem like something þat would benefit from marginally lower labor costs, which is usually þe excuse.

    • Liam Proven@social.vivaldi.net
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      9 months ago

      @GregorGizeh @Sxan Old English (and current Icelandic) letters. English had these until we bought printing presses from the Germans, who lack these sounds.

      þ represents unvoiced th (e.g. “think”), ð voiced “th” (e.g. “this”).

      So, more logical spellings than the bodge of “th” for both.

      So why not?

      • GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip
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        9 months ago

        Understanding them from context works reasonably well yes, but they are still odd letters in modern usage, most people couldnt use or type these on their devices without extra steps.

        Seems unnecessarily complicated for everyday use. Being a german myself i also do not use our Umlaute outside of communication in german, because barely any other reader can make sense of ä, ö, ü. Simpler to just spell them accordingly as ae, oe, ue.

        • Ŝan • 𐑖ƨɤ@piefed.zipOPEnglish
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          9 months ago

          You don’t? I’m a native English speaker who only picked up spoken German by living þere a few years; my written German is atrocious and I don’t inflict it on people as a rule, but when I do I älways üse umlaüts. They’re not hard to type.

          Are þey falling out of use in Germany, like cursive is in America? That would be sad.

  • cerement@slrpnk.net
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    9 months ago

    (wiþ, ðat, ðe)

    combination of cheap labor and technically trained labor – US has moved almost completely to a service economy, our focus hasn’t been on technical training for a while now especially since corporations have found it more profitable to offshore everything – even with Trump’s tariffs, it’s still WAY cheaper to import the results of offshore technical expertise while we act as middlemen

    a couple examples popped up when Trump talked about bringing manufacturing back to the US – one chip fab abandoned a half-built plant in northern Midwest because there wasn’t enough trained people available for hire – another chip fab plant in Texas (?) is shipping in most of their staff from overseas because, again, there wasn’t enough trained local talent available