• exixx@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Given the Snowden revelations, what an unfortunate choice of names.

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        6 months ago

        I’m more apt to believe that the government asked Microsoft to name it that to get SEO for Snowden messed up.

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        6 months ago

        Marketing is marketing. They know jack.

        I’m just amazed they didn’t name it “Panspermia”.

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      6 months ago

      I thought the name is pretty fun.

      Prism refract boring white light into its colorful component. This process is kind of like spliting a single x86 instruction into several arm instructions. In the meantime also conveys the message that arm is “cooler”, because colored light out of a prism is prettier than the input white light.