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according to MSN[^] "Russian military equipment found in Ukraine famously had legacy chips yanked from refrigerators and dishwashers."
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BernardIE5317 wrote: legacy chips yanked from refrigerators and dishwashers.
Chips are multi-purpose. That's a good thing.
Wanna bet the US could've used similar chips in some of its military hardware, but opted to spend $10B to develop single-purpose chips instead?
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I can not believe it: the merge is only $5.4 dollar
Earlier this week, China scuttled a $5.4 dollar merger between Intel and Tower Semiconductor. Tower does not manufacture advanced chips using the latest technologies. Instead, it builds legacy chips–chips manufactured using much older technologies.
diligent hands rule....
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If your are an American (as your profile suggests): You wouldn't believe how often we Europeans (except the British) have to transla4e
'bilions', 'trillions' or 'wahtever-illons' to European illions and illiards. We are so accustomed to translators ignoring the illion difference between English and Germanic languages that if it at all matters, we search up alternate source to get the magnitudes right.
A bigger problem is that most of the public has no clue about magnitudes. Areas are given in 'football fields', and few if any know the size of a football field. How large is an 'olympic swimming pool'? Noone really knows. These are no more than new terms for "big" and "huge". No more exact, no more meaningful.
Unfortunately, even the European public rarely cares to distinguish between billon/milliard: Three magnitudes, who cares? Trillion/billiard - six magnitudes, it is so big anyway that we cannot relate to it.
So when we see '5.4 dollars' we automatically adjust it by 6, 9, 12 decimal places or whatever the context suggests. I must 'admit' (is it an admission?) that first time I read the article, I never noticed the lack of a unit indication; it was supplied mentally, unconsciously.
European misinterpretation or ignorance of US/English use of -illion units is a much bigger problem than the absence of any such unit.
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Back in the 80's a story going around at Univac was the the Soviet military was buying Speak-n-Spell and other toys to get the chips. They had the ability to design the chips they needed, they just didn't have the ability to make them.
I'm not sure how factual this was, but it did make for a good story.
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Wordle 791 4/6
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Wordle 791 6/6
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Wordle 791 6/6*
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That was close ... too close ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Wordle 791 5/6
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My fourth guess was a word I didn't even know existed
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Ok, I have had my coffee, so you can all come out now!
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"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
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#Worldle #574 4/6 (100%)
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https://worldle.teuteuf.fr
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Two fools and one country made a killing (13)
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Soooo tempted to solve it ... 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Very easy so someone should get it
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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ok ok I'll bite...
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Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Welcome back Peter YAUM 
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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It was a good clue.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Nicely done, you nipped me in the "fool" by a couple minutes. 
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Now, they've to find out whether the God particle devours the Demon particle, or the other way round.
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We already have subatomic boson particles. I am still waiting for the bozo particle.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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