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In short, they've cargo culted themselves. No wonder they've lost their place as makers of powerful processors.
by mrlonglong 5y ago
In short, they've cargo culted themselves. No wonder they've lost their place as makers of powerful processors.
- boondaburrah 5y agoWhy would you not want the additional protection if you have to pick a colour to make the room anyways?
- mrlonglong 5y agoCopying everything implies they do not have full understanding of what makes for a successful process.
- speed_spread 5y agoIt's possible that some level of unresolved empirical "magic" be involved in the process, which does not diminish the value of the end product. Why deprive yourself of hard learned lessons even if you don't understand it all?
- toss1 5y agoChesterton's Fence [0] should overrule fear of cargo culting, especially when the fence (or in this case color) was clearly put up by people who really knew what they were doing at the time. Unless there is a significant cost to it, and unless the benefit is understood, there is no reason that they should be faulted as ignorant cargo cultists simply for keeping it in place. [0] https://www.chesterton.org/taking-a-fence-down/ https://www.chesterton.org/taking-a-fence-down/
- sibrahim 5y agoRight. There's not a compelling reason to switch and there's more than a hint of CYA mixed in with Chesterton's Fence: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-09/how-intel-makes-a-chip https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-09/how-intel... > For decades, Intel’s cleanrooms have been lit like darkrooms, bathed in a deep, low yellow. “That’s an anachronism,” says Mark Bohr, a small, serious man who has spent his entire 38-year career making chips, and who’s now Intel’s top manufacturing scientist. “Nobody’s had the courage to change it.”