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[–] grabyourmotherskeys 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

He's a humorist. It's not supposed to be that funny. Just humourous.

Edit - was thinking of Steve Allen. Time to see the neurologist.

[–] grabyourmotherskeys 3 points 9 months ago (6 children)

You have adequately demonstrated your knowledge. Ten years is not that long. It's happening. We should prepare for it, not deny the reality which is what most do.

[–] grabyourmotherskeys 1 points 9 months ago (22 children)

How about "shi"…?

[–] grabyourmotherskeys 8 points 9 months ago (8 children)

A lot can happen in ten years these days. For some reason I always have to state this every time this topic comes up: I never said it was going to be easy. It's not going to be fast. It is going to happen, though.

[–] grabyourmotherskeys 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (26 children)

I work with a few people from China. What do you think they will say if I ask them if they have a way to say yes to other people in the language they speak when they call their parents?

[–] grabyourmotherskeys 2 points 9 months ago

Leg warmers are back.

[–] grabyourmotherskeys 7 points 9 months ago (10 children)

This is a very different take from "Chinese people just can't do this no matter how much time, money, and talent they devote to it" which is what I'm taking about.

[–] grabyourmotherskeys 26 points 9 months ago (58 children)

It's going to turn out that a nation of billions can, surprisingly, figure out how to make chips domestically once it is no longer possible obtain them efficiently from external markets. This might take a few years to ramp up but it will happen and the market will be flooded.

Most people I've talked to on forums like this believe it is impossible for various reasons that center around technical competence.

I am no lover of Chinese governmental policies but this attitude is both racist and risky. I am old enough to remember people saying Japam was only good at copying Western inventions, for example. I also remember a few years later when everyone wanted to learn to speak Japanese and The Book of Five Rings was the hot CEO book of the month.

China will figure this out.

[–] grabyourmotherskeys 19 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I was thinking that. The first time I saw this I didn't look closely and thought "yes, this is pretty much how I remember it, except I'd be scared that guy was going to ash out his cigarette in my burger and slap me on the back of the head as he leaves because he's probably one of my cousins".

[–] grabyourmotherskeys 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That's just wild. I'm in meetings with slides constantly and never heard of this. We'll, now I have a new rabbit hole to go down (as in "finding the most ridiculous of these").

[–] grabyourmotherskeys 23 points 9 months ago (2 children)

With each year that passes since the re-telling it gets exponentially more interesting.

[–] grabyourmotherskeys 11 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Do... do people really buy add-ons for pp to enhance their slide decks?

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