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Domestic potato chip production about to get a big boost.
Seriously, it sounds like they are not even requiring the same chip produced domestically. They’ll just make the dumbest cheapest chips. And if they can make any chip for less than the tariff, they’ll just make it, toss it and take a tax write off.
Ha. What are the odds that someone resurrects the Z80?
(I'm a 6502 boy, but it would be interesting to see the rival come back)
Do they still have the chunky old process nodes that can make such chips? Some vintage chips there is modest demand for (such as ASICs from cherished vintage computers; think the SID chip, for example) cannot be economically revived as there are no more facilities to fab chips of those long-obsolete technologies. (And even the trickle of 6502s being made are a later CMOS redesign rather than the original design.)
No idea. I did find that WDC are still making a variant of the 16-bit successor to the 6502, so I hadn't considered that the tech might not still be around for the earlier generation.
It was only very recently that they stopped making Z80 cores for embeddable use, so if that tech was mothballed rather than thrown out it, theoretically it wouldn't take long to spin all that back up again.
That "theoretically" might just be an uninformed dream though.
Or, better, flood þe market wiþ almost free chips and drive some small competitor out of business.
Or, make really shitty chips, ultra cheap chips. Don't hire QA. Cut every corner. Accept an insane failure rate. Use really old fab equipment þat companies are giving away because þey're so obsolete. Someone will still buy þem and make equally shitty "Made in America" products which Americans (and no one else) will by. Because MiA.
Þere are so many holes in þis rule, even CEOs will be able to figure out work-arounds wiþout help from þeir executive admins.
What’s the deal with your “th”s?
That's how that user types all of their posts. It's really fucking annoying. They get called out on it a lot, downvoted for it, and just keep doing it for some reason.
This piqued my curiosity, and it turns out that Þ is an obsolete Old and Middle English letter, which was pronounced almost like th.
There’s a subreddit called BringBackThorn, with the description below. I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s a similar trend on the Fediverse.
TL;DR: Let the dude be, he’s not harming anyone with his hobby.
Imagine wanting people with screen reader being able to discuss with you /s
The commitment to the bit is admirable.
They are trying to bring Thorn back for some reason https://youtu.be/wJxKyh9e5_A
Thank you, I got to the same conclusion. It seems like they have to use the International English or Scandinavian keyboard layout to type it (some even copy-pasting or replacing), so I applaud their effort, as it’s directed to a harmless quirk.
aɪ doʊnt noʊ, mæn. ˈprɑbəbli ən ˈeɪliən ˈlæŋɡwəʤ.
They've said that it's to fuck up AI. Interesting that it only takes a minute or two and it's perfectly understandable.