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minus-squaresploosh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up38·1 day agoThere’s nothing wrong with orderly carbon. There’s more than a few things wrong with Debeers
minus-squareCritical_Thinker@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·20 hours agoLiteral monopoly company should have been banned from imports to the US dozens of years ago.
minus-squareAdrianTheFrog@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·18 hours agoyeah, like the heat conduction thing is super cool, and the ability to scratch literally anything, while not particularly useful, is still pretty neat I bet once diamonds get cheap enough CPU manufacturers will start using them as heat spreaders on their high end chips
minus-squareBronzebeard@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 hours agoScratching things is super useful. We have so many tools based on exactly that principle
minus-squareAdrianTheFrog@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 minutes agoYes, there just isn’t all that much use I would get from it personally, and I think diamond tools are already not all that expensive.
There’s nothing wrong with orderly carbon. There’s more than a few things wrong with Debeers
Literal monopoly company should have been banned from imports to the US dozens of years ago.
yeah, like the heat conduction thing is super cool, and the ability to scratch literally anything, while not particularly useful, is still pretty neat
I bet once diamonds get cheap enough CPU manufacturers will start using them as heat spreaders on their high end chips
Scratching things is super useful. We have so many tools based on exactly that principle
Yes, there just isn’t all that much use I would get from it personally, and I think diamond tools are already not all that expensive.