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You aren't alone in being frustrated by decades of muscle memory being disrespected by MSFT.

I thought I remembered reading somewhere re: the 8086 microcode disassembly that NOP, which is encoded as XCHG AX,AX actually does run the XCHG microcode and uses an internal scrat…

Was hoping for more Serial Experiments Lain. There are references in it to the Apple OS codename Copeland or Rhapsody-- I don't remember which.

Sorry for the exasperation. At the start of this you said: "For 99.999% of people, it is literally kthxbye on all code they execute on all their devices." I think that's inaccurate…

I don't get how saying companies should hold their employees accountable, which doesn't always happen, is somehow obtuse. I give up. I feel like you're a robot designed to waste my…

You're being reductive or just obtuse. The company that employed the developer ultimately holds the accountability in the marketplace. The employed developer maintains (or loses) t…

> What quality does it have that humans had eyes on code? The human who had their eyes and hands on the code has accountability. I think how accountability is going to work, in the…

That we don't have to heavily scrutinize the code generated by compilers is a result of the huge amount of human toil that went into the compilers and test suites. Compilers are de…

I don't think that's accurate. Until recently the code we rely on wasn't blindly trusted. People wrote and QA'd it. We may not have reviewed it personally, but that's one of the fu…

I inherited an old Sharp LCD TV that has a serial port. I did some digging and discovered I can power it on and off thru the serial port (amongst other commands). It serves a role …

> I reached out to Flume. They were very responsive, and their CTO shared an overview of their already-in-progress plans to further improve the product’s privacy and security. Read…

I got this book as a discard from my public library when I was a young kid, having only ever used standalone computers. The networked future it described re: home computers (which …

High head pressure on startup is the problem I'm thinking of. Generally there is a delay after shutdown and a lockout on restart until the head pressure is lower. In the old refrig…

The lack of feedback from the AC unit makes using a switched outlet potentially problematic. You really need to know the state of the compressor cycling before you go mucking with …

The "couple a stepper motor to a shaft" API is so much better than any "smart" appliance API. Speaking more seriously, I wish classes of appliances would expose some simple analog …

I don't mind p=none. I'm more bent out of shape about policies that tell me to reject that, if followed, would result in the loss of legit email.

"Someone brought the black bass to this lake from far away, changing the biological distribution of the lake." https://youtube.com/watch?v=5w35n0Hm_m0

> LLMs are vulnerable to classes of attacks that humans just aren’t. Assume a human with complete credulity and gullibility. That's a human whose behaviour would be reasonably anal…

BTW, when you say "former colleague" are you referring to _the_ (non-fictional character) Howard Wolowitz? I don't much care for the show the namesake character was featured in, bu…

My spirit was broken for that kind of work a long time ago. More often than not I end up talking to someone in the sender's IT who fancies themself an expert and is completely incr…

I mind email for a number of small orgs (<1000 recipients each). There are so many SPF and DKIM failures from senders who you'd think would know better (Fortune 100-type companies)…

Aside: I support a court who uses a FilePro-based application that dates back, at least, to the mid-90s. I don't have to deal with the actual app-- just the underlying Linux boxes …

I'm afraid to leave the country precisely because I worry about difficulties upon return. I understand that as a citizen I can't be denied reentry, but I also understand they can m…

> I genuinely don't think there is a "get out of jail free card" ... Being rich and politically connected would probably do it.