[HN Gopher] The Pentium as a Navajo Weaving
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The Pentium as a Navajo Weaving
Author : GavinAnderegg
Score : 80 points
Date : 2024-09-01 16:46 UTC (6 hours ago)
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| kens wrote:
| Author here for your obscure Pentium questions...
| hindsightbias wrote:
| Well done.
| kens wrote:
| Thanks! Curiously, the article doesn't show up on HN. Maybe
| my domain got banned or something?
| Joe_Cool wrote:
| I just saw it on the frontpage and very much enjoyed it.
| teruakohatu wrote:
| That was a very interesting and well researched article. Thank
| you.
| omoikane wrote:
| I laughed at the bit where the gallery picked the wrong side of
| the rug to display, but this got me thinking -- presumably all
| the die photos we see are from the etched side of the wafer,
| what does it look like on the other side? Is it just all flat?
| kens wrote:
| The other side is plain gray silicon; I've looked at the back
| side of dies by mistake many times. (Intel is starting to do
| power through the back side, which would make the back more
| interesting.)
| n8henrie wrote:
| Just moved back to ABQ from Shiprock last month, after 8 years.
| Not every day you see Shiprock featured in an HN post!
| h2odragon wrote:
| Fairly rare to be able to connect sheep with semiconductors.
|
| I wonder if anyone is working on ovine AI opportunities yet.
| NelsonMinar wrote:
| That story about Fairchild manufacturing at Shiprock is
| fascinating and heartbreaking. Glad to see it so thoughtfully
| researched and presented.
| tarellel wrote:
| And as sad it is, they cycle as has repeated itself and its
| still a sad situation around Shiprock. I'm someone who lives
| within the general area and poverty is still saturating the
| Navajo community. To make things worse the oilfield in the area
| has shifted to Texas. And within the last year the Four Corners
| Power Plant (PNM) and Navajo Mine (BHP) have shut down. These
| have been 2 extremely large employers of the area for the
| Navajo people since the 70's. Lots of businesses in neighboring
| towns like Farmington and Gallup have shuddered. And a large
| amount of people (who could afford to) have moved to places
| like Phoenix and Denver so they don't get stuck being part of
| the situation.
| BoingBoomTschak wrote:
| You know what they've said for millennia: "Vae victis"!
| niccl wrote:
| A fun full-circle. The Jacquard loom was influential for input
| for early computers, and now the computer is influencing the
| output of looms
| swayvil wrote:
| Speaking as an artist and a programmer, has it ever struck you
| how utterly _low_ it is to sit in a room making things? You are
| interacting with little speck of dead stuff. Staring, unmoving,
| practically dead yourself. Playing with a little dream. There 's
| something deeply wrong with that. Spiritually wrong even.
| Sometimes I reflect and feel shame at my wastefulness.
| groestl wrote:
| Dead stuff is stuff without structure. I tend to think about my
| interactions with the universe as extending the structure that
| is me to dead stuff. Stuff is lifted to structuredness, and
| becomes part of us as a whole. I don't feel that's low at all.
| turtledragonfly wrote:
| Hello, fellow artist+programmer (:
|
| What do you think of the quote: "Whatever you do will be
| utterly insignificant, but it is very important that you do it"
| ?
|
| Personally, I think playing with little dreams is beautiful,
| but I do hope you find something that satisfies your soul.
|
| In my experience, artistry and a bit of depression often go
| hand-in-hand. If you spend a lot of time paying attention to
| things, you're bound to notice the Abyss.
| robocat wrote:
| Soeaking as an engineer, has it ever struck you how utterly low
| it is to sit in a room making art? Sculptural materials and
| paint is dead. Words are but faint echoes of human life.
|
| Your comments are more a reflection upon your own worldview.
|
| To improve things you merely need to change your own
| perceptions.
| retrac wrote:
| Playing with our little dreams is what makes us human. Best not
| to get lost in them though. Some crafting is wasteful, much
| serves a useful purpose - and there's nothing deeply wrong with
| that. And idle crafting, is often a kind of play, keeping
| skills sharp. I do often think I could spend my time better.
| But that usually means I need to be doing less dreaming and
| more hacking away at some dead matter to make a dream into
| reality.
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