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Like yeah, purely from a utility standpoint, a $50 Casio destroys a mechanical watch in accuracy and durability. But not everything people value is about utility - sometimes it's about beauty, craftsmanship, or just the joy of making something wildly unnecessary really well


There is its own beauty and craftsmanship in cramming billions of transistors on a 4nm die.


Sadly we don't consider things that are economically efficient as craftmanship :)




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