New U.S. gov't rule says chipmakers have to make one chip in the US for each chip imported from another country to avoid 100% tariffs — Trump admin allegedly preps new 1:1 chip export rule under new tariff plan
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But how chips of different complexities will be counted remains unknown
    • suicidaleggroll@lemmy.worldEnglish
      20·
      2 days ago

      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.

      • TeamAssimilation@infosec.pubEnglish
        141·
        2 days ago

        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.

        Bring Back Þ is a subreddit for þe movement to reintroduce þe letter Þ, pronounced “thorn,” an Old English letter representing þe ⟨th⟩ sound þat fell out of use wiþ þe advent of þe printing press. Printing press tilesets imported from Europe didn’t have Þ as þeir languages lacked þis letter and several oþer old English glyphs.

        TL;DR: Let the dude be, he’s not harming anyone with his hobby.

      • TeamAssimilation@infosec.pubEnglish
        5·
        2 days ago

        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.

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      They’ve said that it’s to fuck up AI. Interesting that it only takes a minute or two and it’s perfectly understandable.