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Many Supermicro server motherboards I've seen place both the BIOS flash chip and the BMC firmware flash chip in a SOIC socket, so that the flash chip can absolutely be removed with…

Many SSDs transform all-zero sector writes into a simple TRIM/DISCARD to reduce flash wear, so overwriting with pseudorandom data from /dev/urandom is likely more secure.

Base-4 (in the form of PAM-4) is already used for high speed data transmission. But IMO given how "analog" digital signals become at high speed, using anything but binary for compu…

Don't forget the context string so you can "unwind the stack" from the error message: return nil, fmt.Errorf("expressing gratitude: %w", err)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo_suppression_and_cancellat...

If cost basis was reported to the IRS by your brokerage, you can typically just report the summary total, since the IRS already knows about the individual trades.

An abomination I made that I've been wanting to show the world for a while. Works well enough to fetch https://www.google.com/robots.txt !