At the time, clock speeds were chosen and the chips designed to work that fast. They also gave an overhead for variances in manufacturing.

Modern chips mostly make use of this already. There was a time when over clocking was quite common in the geek community. It’s mostly disappeared now. The CPUs we have now don’t benefit as much from a boost, and are more likely to go past their limits and burn out.

It’s also worth noting it was a change from 32000hz to 32040 Hz. An increase of around 0.125% (or 1.00125x faster). It’s fucking tiny, it only really matters when times are extremely close. E.g. 60 minutes pass in 59 minutes, 55 seconds, a saving of 5 seconds maximum.

This is textbook toxic masculinity.

A lot of people misuse the term, but this is an excellent example. The men involved lose out on something amazing due to it being ‘unmanly’.

It’s also worth noting that he fell on his own sword, politically. He knew that Briton needed a strong leader, with the people unified behind them. Churchill could do this, he couldn’t. He took the blame to keep the rest of the party clean.

The same way your mortgage is backed up by your house. If you default on your mortgage, the bank can take your house in foreclosure.

Rather than sell shares to raise the money, Musk has backed his borrowing with Tesla shares. Basically, if he doesn’t pay back the loan, the banks get the shares. Unlike houses, shares can change value quite quickly. If the value of the loan exceeds the value of the shares, then the banks start to get VERY nervous. They will call in the loans to get what they can, before things get worse. This could crash the share price further, since they will want to offload the shares as soon as possible.

Musk is extremely rich. However, like most extremely rick people, his money is tied up in shares. If Tesla falls fast enough, he could end up owing more than he has in assets. As soon as his creditors pull the plug, he becomes bankrupt.