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They declined to say: https://www.eetimes.com/taalas-specializes-to-extremes-for-e...

Except they say it's fully digital, so not an analog multiplier


Fully digital, no analog, 4 bits fit into one transistor. Hmm. In one clock cycle?

From some random googling it seems like "swie" could be "silence", but it doesn't seem to be quite that meaning. There may be some religious overtones .

Yes, I found https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/middle-english-dictionary/dicti... , which glosses "swie" as "silence".

Here the text says "I swied", so it has to be a verb, but the meaning "be silent" makes sense in the passage.

Something to think about in this exercise is that the shortness of the passages adds difficulty.

Consider section 1200, where a verb with the root ner is used. It's given so much focus and contextual elaboration that you can easily tell what it means, even though the word is unfamiliar.

If you read longer passages of Middle English, this same phenomenon will occur with more words.


Wiktionary doesn't mention it for either word, but it looks to be cognate with German schweigen, "to be silent":

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/schweigen


Well, wiktionary does call them cognates, if you follow the links around.

Old English swige < proto-West-Germanic swiga ; German schweigen < proto-West-Germanic swigen < swiga

(Following the links around on wiktionary may, in general, lead to self-contradictory results.)


In Limburgs, still today: Zwieg!: Shut up, zwiegen: Not saying anything.

Anyone wanting to hear the older language spoken, this is a performance of Beowulf:

https://www.youtube.com/live/2WcIK_8f7oQ?si=NpXTrRjcHN09Zn56...


Yeah same. The explanation at the bottom is interesting, lots of the words imported from Normandy drop off then, and the grammar changes more significantly.

I think people see "The blog ends there. No sign-off, no “thanks for reading.”" and stop reading everything after that xD

Yes, I nearly missed it myself

"Ibuprofen, for example, is crude oil."

In what sense? Ibuprofen is a specific chemical compound, crude oil is anything but that - it's a mixture of a huge number of chemicals.

I don't think the pharma industry is a moral exemplar either. But this seems like a simple error that will just distract from your point. Others in the thread have given better examples.


Historically, what R&D there was, was often done by the state; simply because of being the entity with the most spare capacity to do so. It goes a long way back, Egyptian pharoes and Chinese emperors had written in their histories about how they invented things or made economic improvements. These were most likely done by people under their sponsorship, but nevertheless they saw it as part of their role.

There's (vo2master) device that can apparently measure it in one breath; there was a video on some swimmer using it on turnaround without much interference with their exercise. $7k though.

Hansard is a great example, because originally parliament did not allow publication of its proceedings; to get round this "Several editors used the device of reporting on parliamentary debates under the veil of debates of fictitious societies or bodies. The names under which parliamentary debates were published include Proceedings of the Lower Room of the Robin Hood Society and Debates of the Senate of Magna Lilliputia."

That exists for court documents (RECAP) but I think they didn't have to solve the issue of privilege as PACER publishes unprivileged docs.

In particular, habeas petitions against DHS, and SSA appeals aren’t available online for public inspection: you have to go to a clerk’s office and pay for physical copies. (I think this may have been reasonable given the circumstances in past decades… not so now.)

It depends. Many places in the UK have a tradition of "virtual queuing" at bars; they don't stand in a line because that would usually block the space, but everyone remembers who was before them. Usually the barkeep remembers as well, but sometimes they ask "who's next" and people defer to those ahead. But load balancing also happens.

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