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> among the most sought-after TI products are flip-flop chips, used to protect devices from electric power flowing in the wrong direction when they go into slee
by fargle 2y ago
> among the most sought-after TI products are flip-flop chips, used to protect devices from electric power flowing in the wrong direction when they go into sleep state
oh, dear... i appear to have been confused about what flip-flop chips actually did.
is this an AI hallucination? or just a liberal-arts-major hallucination?
- K0balt 2y agoMaybe they are used to track state ina specific circuit? Even then, weird.
- fargle 2y agojournalist (staring at his sandals) > flip-flops? you mean like the ones with the strap thingy that goes between your big toe? ti communications director > well, no. not that kind of flip-flop. a flip-flop is a circuit which maintains a single bit of state. journalist (furiously scratching out some unseen notes) > what kind of state, like state of matter or like in government? ti communications director > for example, lets say we need to keep track of whether the state of some electronics is in sleep or power-down state or not. you could store that information in a flip-flop. journalist > so the power knows which way to go? ti communications director > sure. why not.
- evoke4908 2y agoSounds like a layperson's poor understanding of an explanation from someone else who also doesn't really get it.