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Re:Nikola: How to Parlay an Ocean of Lies into a Partnership... by tempsy on Thursday September 10, 2020 @06:50PM (#24437379)
> "so using it let's us build our own chips"

what is the connection between HTML5 and building your own chips?

Re:Nikola: How to Parlay an Ocean of Lies into a Partnership... by divbzero on Thursday September 10, 2020 @07:10PM (#24437544)
That one’s pretty obvious: The custom quantum chips enable hardware-accelerated HTML5 and power the deep neural nets that drive carbon emissions to zero.
Re:Nikola: How to Parlay an Ocean of Lies into a Partnership... by BoorishBears on Thursday September 10, 2020 @07:31PM (#24437713)
If you really want to be charitable, it could just be it benchmarks well with Js. Maybe cache hierarchy or instruction extensions like Arm v8.3

The "build our own chips" could be like when people call entire computer towers "CPUs" and really just mean build the infotainment boards how they like. HTML 5 gives them easy portability in the case they want to change things out.

Security would probably refer to embedding something like Chromium and taking advantage of their sandbox

And "data network instead of stuff just working" could mean something like local network RPC/REST over HTTPS instead of CAN which is much more general purpose

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This is all a lot of stretching... but sometimes non-technical people try to very confidently regurgitate technical things they hear while filling in the gaps

Especially because they don't realize how small changes in terms have such outsized changes in meaning (hence the calling a computer tower a CPU)

Re:Nikola: How to Parlay an Ocean of Lies into a Partnership... by ashtonkem on Thursday September 10, 2020 @06:52PM (#24437392)
Both are things that get non-tech savvy investors excited, apparently.
Re:Nikola: How to Parlay an Ocean of Lies into a Partnership... by tempsy on Thursday September 10, 2020 @06:57PM (#24437435)
"...I use CSS too!"

stock goes up 10%

Re:Nikola: How to Parlay an Ocean of Lies into a Partnership... by WalterSear on Thursday September 10, 2020 @06:54PM (#24437416)
They are both Venture Capital-strength buzzwords.