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My point exactly. They have different ISA, and as such cannot be compared on the transistor count alone. They each correspond to a different era, with different needs, as BCD clear…

> 29000 transistors? But it's the same as an ARM2 which apparently was full 32bit and had an integer multiplier. It's a very good point. I think it's worth to ask a few questions i…

> Does the microcode contain any "junk code" that doesn't do anything? > It seems to! While most of the unused parts of the ROM (64 instructions) are filled with zeroes, there are …

Great work!

Answering myself: I decided to search for SMP, which stands for Symetric Multi Processing, to verify its definition. This acronym is used for hardware sporting several identical CP…

> Plainly named but patently cool, eFuel is a synthetic gasoline that burns exactly like the traditional stuff yet has minimal environmental impact. > But how is eFuel made? [...] …

You should probably show a confirmation box when leaving the page - if that's possible - unless that feature is disabled in demo mode?

Perhaps there are undisclosed security implications?

Wouldn't it be possible for a process to ask to be pinned to a specific CPU core, or the OS to handle programs with extra tags indicating their ISA requirements, so that it could r…

What is it about?

> for example, just to add two numbers you have to shift mantissas and 6502 has no fast way to do it How much work is there to do beside shifting mantissa? (A shift is also necessa…

But, wasn't the original argument discussing the merits of Bash as a shell? So you're saying that Bash is great as a shell because it's a shell?

so it's not Bash by itself which is great, it's POSIX shells? > they are part of POSIX (a Standard which is implemented by multiple OS) and therefore often available That's not an …

> Most of the good features that people associate with Ubuntu are actually in Debian, with none of the proprietary weirdness that creeps into Ubuntu year over year. A lot of what y…

The main advantage of Silverblue isn't just toolbox (which isn't originally an Ubuntu tool, btw). The main advantage of Silverblue is its readonly root fs . Toolbox comes as the pr…

> I got tired of running `pacman -Syu`, rebooting, and having my machine not turn on due to some new kernel change or some video driver change, or something else. It never happened…

Well, if you generalize the statement enough, indeed it's the same class of issue. In the situation you described: * you have a fairly easy way to detect the problem * the interns …

Sorry, clearly my comment wasn't very helpful. I was trying to point out that quoting parameters or not could bring a different meaning for a shell (as one could see it with Bash),…

> Does anyone actually do that in a production code? Would you accept teaching code as production code? Specifically, if you were to teach programming to young non English speakers…

> if (uid = NULL) { // Check if root That's not the same class of error, since here a programmer can see the issue by simple inspection. > or #include anything with a #DEFINE This …

This would probably be the case for any language when the script is generated.

> However, given its superior strength we haven't overcome it yet... "Superior strength" is probably just a matter taste, however I would really like to read your explanation on wh…

> It would be really annoying if we always had to add quotes for string args when we're typing at the terminal With bash (and I suspect with every other popular shells out there), …