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@gsuberland @krutonium @marcan @dkohlbre That's not the only name for the concept; my previous employer used "CYA bits" for things like that.  @slab @gsuberland @krutonium @dkohlbre Apple themselves call them "tunables" it seems (though that's a more general term used for hardware config type stuff) and HID itself is a term from the PowerPC era (Hardware Implementation Dependent) But we call them chicken bits because it's more fun.  @marcan @slab @gsuberland @dkohlbre I can appreciate that, chicken is definitely more fun. Now with that said, why am I not getting *any* notifications all of a sudden...  @krutonium@social.treehouse.systems @marcan@social.treehouse.systems @dkohlbre@infosec.exchange |
@krutonium @marcan @dkohlbre it lets you "chicken out" of certain circuits when you're designing an ASIC, so if something misbehaves it doesn't wreck the whole chip and require an extremely expensive respin.