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[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

I would be proud of being a warlock, but I'm more like the guy who speaks to the guy who speaks to the guy who speaks to the warlock who speaks to the stones.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago

The next best thing to being a warlock is being a safe distance from warlocks

[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 days ago (4 children)

What’s extremely rare about silicon?

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago

But that's more of an economic issue than it is a technical one. It's possible to process the less pure stuff, but it's cheaper to just get the good stuff to start with.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Silicon itself is certainly not rare (even if the purification process is somewhat exigent on the feedstock), but modern chips uses a lot of rare-ish elements in their makeup (hafnium for mosfet gates, gold for chip/package connexion, etc...).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

"Extremely rare rocks" is not the same thing as "extremely rare minerals" and is definitely not the same thing as "extremely rare elements."

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

Maybe it's about the stuff that's added to the silicon.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago

Some of us can whisper through the haunted frame and command these arcane dialects.

If you watched us you'd think it was mostly swearing.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

Sometimes, the magic signal does not reach and it ruins someone entire day

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Anon has been reading The Pattern On The Stone