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Vital bit of background context from the article: > Now in his 50s, Erp was 19 and still living in his hometown of Harare, Zimbabwe, when he got the call from a local shopkeeper te…

See also virtual 6502 and ARM1 e.g. http://www.visual6502.org/sim/varm/armgl.html

This spaghetti also reminding me of a scene from the three body problem (trying to avoid spoilers)

Amazing, I had no idea how far things had diverged between logic and flash since the move to 3D. https://borecraft.com/files/Comparison_Current_NAND.pdf (from 2019) has some of the…

What does 'layer' mean in this context? I'm only familiar with planar style logic process nodes which have maybe up to 20 layers (and way more lithography steps to manufacture thos…

Intel had over 130,000 employees as of a couple of months ago. 15% layoffs is nearly 20,000 people.

Intel had over 130,000 employees as of a couple of months ago. 15% layoffs is nearly 20,000 people.

I don’t use GitHub in my day to day work, but since I don’t see any other answers: for me the main reason it to prove the tag hasn’t been changed under me feet. It’s too easy for a…

Yes - extremely poorly thought out from Apple. Has caught out multiple people at my workplace. Feature is buried in the camera pipeline of MacOS, had assumed it was a bug in zoom t…

> For a highly developed English-speaking country it is very underrepresented in software tech. We’re here quietly - all working for American / multi-national companies. Just littl…

Whatever happened to caveat emptor? From NYtimes 2015 [1] > Some consider the Autonomy acquisition to be the worst corporate deal ever. > Just how bad is confirmed by the latest re…

24 in one month for July 2009!

Always impressed by how fast a CT machine actually spins compared to that first version that took half an hour to rotate 180 degrees! You can see them with the cover off in many vi…

As he states near end of video, nothing else right now beats streaming for convenience. I’d prefer a system where my monthly subscription gets divided up only between artists I lis…

Just wanted to say hello, as someone who used to regularly browse haddock.org for interesting links before hackernews existed!

For at least one gen of MacBooks (maybe the ill-fated 2016 MacBook Pros?), this was actually a design fault. In the battle for thinness there was not enough separation between scre…

There was a general rule banning drones from Sagamartha national park, but actually you just need a permit. However if you are going over Everest, you are crossing the border from …

What devices are there in the field are reliant on the Google IoT Core Service platform? Are there ‘smart’ devices that are just going to stop working unless people rewrite the fir…

The quotes in that page have some of the most spectacularly misleading statistics I’ve seen for a while. Might as well point out that for telling the time looking at my watch is mo…

Am I reading this right? That section also says he made shape charges out of cucumber that could cut steel!

It’s complicated is an understatement ;) I assume most people have no visibility of the effort of hundreds of engineers who work on behalf of the big smartphone companies tuning fo…

ps. By far the worst. Because it supports multiple syntax types I can never remember the ps command options. Even if you google for examples you get different syntax and end up wit…

What works for me: Take a minimum of 2 weeks vacation in one block (3 or 4 is amazing if you can negotiate it - don’t be afraid to ask if you are at $bigcorp). If possible don’t us…

I have no idea who or what to believe, but there is a quote from someone claiming to be a NGO documenting war crimes that has had their records wiped by this https://github.com/Ide…