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Was I thinking of 0x86?

It takes a billion dollars and years to produce a new chip fab line. So no, it cannot just be produced for you on a dime.

There were several NOPs - XCHG BX,BX and so on. Those were taken later to be prefixes for new classes of opcodes.

In the US, it's estimated the average kid's bike goes less than 10 miles in it's lifetime.

ICE Sprint https://www.icetrikes.co/products/sprint-x-tour-recumbent-tr...

What if you end up with unmaintainable junk? What if it almost works, and you have to fix it, and you have no idea how? None of this is new ground. I admit at first, I thought the …

I ride a recumbent trike, and the chain path is even more grotesque. I think I could draw it.

Reminds me of the copper statue-of-liberty program at a similar time. Local youth groups (largely the Scouts) would do a fundraiser for the pedestal, then a foundry in Kansas City …

Another view of that is, hedging their bets. Which businesses do all the time.

"The Bronx" was "The Bronks", a farm owned by a Dutch family and a popular picnic destination before it was subdivided and built over.

Of course, do it with vats of plant cells in floating oceanic CO2 factories. Not in your living room. Or, just let the oceans recover, let the mollusks return to the bays and shore…

In mice

Contractors same deal. Work on some big company moonshot style thing and just as it's all in the can, you're let go.

Ballsy

All of us prioritize our lives over cybersecurity. This whole security theatre game was thrust upon us. It has no bearing on our real lives; it's just a task we've been given with …

Swiftly followed by an Orange County Harley-Davidson shop that sold parts and shipped around the world. Was much talked about at the time.

capability has been advancing faster than raw FLOPS

A bold prediction. Phones have gigabytes today. There are famous laws of growth that put terabytes at just a few years away - perhaps 10 isn't too bad an estimate?

Shelves are fairly spotty in my town. Never saw that before, not in 50 years.

My son programmed a Z80-based instruction set into a Juno probe sensor. Still kicking.

Contrary to that old headline about questions always answerable by no, curiously this one is Yes. Despite 'explanations' that reframe the loss and temporizing that maybe it will pr…

We didn't need a guide in the 1980's. My first job out of Stanford was a startup called Convergent. Somebody put a wall map of the US up, with pins, Where are you from? Two from LA…

Confused: they are 'waiting' if they are in the queue when the queue is polled. What else could 'waiting' mean? How is time involved at all?

I wonder if a microsat could do the elliptical orbit and small nudge technique to leave Earth and enter Mars orbit too? A microsat has very little reaction mass. But it has very li…

Who do we alert when Washington is accused of misconduct?