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IBM doesn't do wacky stuff like Pointer authentication that creeps into every corner of the spec, making everything more complicated …

No. AFAIK AIX only runs on PowerVM systems, which none of the OpenPOWER systems are.

That's an IBM TDP (i. e. maximum ever power), not an Intel TDP (i. e. maximum power at some arbitrary power state declared as 'base clock speed').

Yes but it refers to an electronic musical keyboard, not a computer keyboard, which is indeed „Tastatur”.

Do you have any literature on this being called a pseudo-mode and the tradeoffs between it and "real" modes? I am currently pretty interested in these kinds of topics.

On the other hand, people not only drive, but also oppose progress; as a smarter than me person (don't remember who it was) said: Science advances one funeral at a time (it's basic…

Also, there are function prologues/epilogues and sometimes additional instructions to satisfy the calling convention.

Where did you get that URL? It's not linked on http://idlewords.com/talks/ …

> And good plastics are plastic in the traditional sense of the word: if you drop them, they'll absorb the force by deforming and then spring back into place. That's not what I was…

That is news to me, and https://getpocket.com/about doesn't mention Mozilla at all … do you have a link to some official announcement?

Works on my Arch …

I do the same with man instead (even though I only used that program like 50 times the last year) … it even happens in any other program where you can input text …

What, you mean return copyright to a state that worked for, what, a century, and which meant that people could actually freely remix things they saw as adolescents within their lif…

Teletypes, which might have been what people where thinking of in the 60s and early 70s, didn't have a CPU AFAIK.

… but modern phones, watches and TVs are computers …

Writing the template and the content in HTML is easy enough for me, but I'm still struggling to make post lists, feeds and other things out of it without a lot of administrative ef…

As the very home country of Mercedes/Daimler, Opel, Volkswagen and other car manufacturers and the (AFAIK) only unlimited-speed public roads in the world (Autobahn), I (German citi…

To be fair, 'uber' had been in use as an adverb on the internet long before the company stepped on the scene, it's just that now it's in everyone's face …

That "object-oriented" design is called capabilities.

Given how many times btrfs has failed to read data or to mount (with an error), I would imagine this is why btrfs is used by Facebook: because it isn't afraid to 'just let it crash…

I don't know why you say 'at least half', but the parties that got less than proportional number of seats (usually everyone except the CDU and sometimes SPD) gets Ausgleichsmandate…

If you use a C FFI in any language, including Java, all kinds of safety are off. Unsafe Rust is equivalent to C (with a lot of mandatory lints) in terms of safety, so Rust is not r…

If you can look at, but not redistribute, freely, it is called 'shared source'. Open Source really is about free redistribution. And the difference to Free Software is mostly about…

Yeah I use those, too. Turns out you can use some url hacking to get them, even if they don't have a . The URL is https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id= followed by t…

I've not been at GamesCom, but EvilDragon said he would have a stall there showing the last prototype devices before production ( https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/threads/open-and-…