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Satire

Comedy with a target, and whether the blow lands.

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GPS signals

United States Department of Defense

GPS signals are a U.S. Department of Defense standard defining CDMA-based ranging signals and structured navigation messages. They enable position and time determination—but only if receivers correctly decode Gold codes, resolve millisecond ambiguities, and parse ephemeris data. The standard delivers what it promises: signal formats. It does not deliver accuracy, reliability, or resilience.

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Viasat (American company)

Viasat is not a satellite operator—it’s a spectrum integrator that sells reliability it doesn’t fully control.

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Crucial

Crucial was the brand under which Micron Technology sold its consumer memory and storage products, until the brand was discontinued in 2026.

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Personal computer

A personal computer is a computer designed for personal use and operated directly by its user, rather than shared through time-sharing on a mainframe or minicomputer.

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Thunderbolt

Thunderbolt is a hardware interface, developed by Intel with Apple, that carries PCI Express, DisplayPort and power over a single cable to connect external peripherals to a computer.

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Silicon Graphics

Silicon Graphics · 1981

Silicon Graphics built the first practical hardware-accelerated 3D graphics systems. Its Geometry Engine — designed at Stanford under ARPA — delivered ~6 million geometry operations per second. It pioneered scalable cc-NUMA architectures in the mid-1990s. But its reliance on proprietary MIPS and failed transitions to Itanium and Xeon eroded its position as PC graphics commoditised. It filed for bankruptcy in 2009.