When I took a machining course, the instructor sat in the corner and showed us YouTube videos in Mandarin with English subtitles to teach us the equipment.

We are never going to catch up.

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themaninthedark 12 hours ago | parent | next [-]

What a myopic attitude.

3 to 4 decades ago anything from China was poor quality and US manufacturing was tight tolerance.

When we outsourced, we did the training to get them where they are today and stopped investing in our skills at home.

There are still skilled people here who can train and the knowledge is not some sort of eldritch incantation.

The main issues with learning is lack of jobs and lack of opportunity to apply skills if you have them.

	▲	jjmarr 11 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I had to pay an instructor to show me YouTube videos because the college wouldn't admit to being unable to find domestic talent. > There are still skilled people here who can train If you don't acknowledge you're losing the race, you will never catch up.

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ozlikethewizard 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Most of the comp sci videos on youtube are indian, but is India the cutting edge producing of comp sci innovations?

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