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An American engineering student spent months visiting the heads of German factories ("the masters") to understand how they think.

Louis Cheslaw
1mo ago

All of which means that Elon seems to be going after ASML and TSMC at the same time by building a particle accelerator. Now that's vertical integration.

1mo ago

A system built by a four-year-old startup went from prototype to a live combat mission, a month after another Corsair performed the first known rescue of downed pilots by an autonomous boat. Proving that a startup can build autonomous boats that are useful in combat is huge, but proving that they can build a great American shipyard again might be even bigger.

2mo ago

Within skilled assembly, wire harnesses are perhaps the trickiest to get right, or at least the trickiest that we need a lot of, the trickiest without which nothing else turns on. So if you've been trained to heatseek bottlenecks at the system level and throw everything you've got at them until they're knocked out and you can move on to the next one, then wire harnessing is the logical place to start. And it turns out you can't automate it, yet.

2mo ago

Getting any one advanced reactor to criticality by July 4, 2026 would have been considered a minor miracle, but getting four with more to come means that there's going to be competition. Whoever can deploy most quickly, with a product that customers want, at the best price, will win. The field shifts from science to manufacturing.

2mo ago
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The Real McCoy’s Edition

The goal was never to deliver a replica, but rather each style's ideal final form: The piece the wartime factory would have made if it hadn't been racing to meet a quota.

3mo ago

In the Electric Era, maintaining design leadership without manufacturing leadership is not a coherent strategic position, and one that gets less coherent the better you believe AI will get.

3mo ago

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