pjtaipale

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   by pjtaipale 14y ago

   For me, the most famous example is DRAM chips in Sinclair ZX Spectrum. Sir Clive got them cheap because they were ones rejected at the production test. Spectrum issue 1 48 K model used 64 kbit chips where one half was broken, and the mother
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   by pjtaipale 15y ago

   The German pay for factory workers isn't so great, by the way. Income structure is more flat in Scandinavia, for instance; compared to Sweden and Finland, Germany has cheap factory labor cost. However, the main problem with British industri
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   by pjtaipale 15y ago

   This is so cool. It allows me to identify stupid web sites immediately, and never return to them. I could probably even create a browser plugin that warns me before I enter such sites that want to apply a broken paper paradigm to the web.