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Possibly controversial opinion, but radio stopped being relevant to me personally when congress removed the ownership restrictions for a single market. It's only gotten worse from …

Hug of death by all appearances, here's an archive link https://web.archive.org/web/20260710102120/https://www.loicm...

Gor Nishanov, driver behind C++ coroutines has died

> Windows 3.1 had no memory protection at all All of the below is... IIRC Win16, even in protected mode, in general didn't unless you opted out of the shared VDM. This was to prese…

Did you enjoy your last meal and funeral? Either way glad you got better!

Maybe? It's a 400V architecture, and honestly that's my criticism... 400V seems low at this point. Particularly for something requiring an "Authorized Installer" I'd have expected …

This is why I've said for years: If you want to drive best practices and policy with companies you can only do it with liability. Particularly non-insurable and non-tax deductible …

When MS removed Solitaire and made it an app, that should have been the sign to move. When they introduced a mobile first UI onto a desktop OS... When they forced mandatory Microso…

Based on the info if you click into them, likely no. I would have expected them to be incidental materials from tunneling, but reading the description that's not the case.

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I believe you're thinking of the x86 Hotpatching hook[1], which doesn't exist on x86-64[2] (in the same form, it uses a x86-64 safe one). [1] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewt…

Almost assuredly, given that 10.0 was released on 32bit PPC... and was built around Carbon, not Cocoa... yeah it's changed just a wee bit.

I think I said something about the stack efficiency. I was a kid that barely understood out of order execution. Register renaming and the rest was well beyond me. It was also a lon…

I remember failing an interview with the optimization team of a large fruit trademarked computer maker because I couldn't explain why the x87 stack was a bad design. TBF they were …

I believe the Academy Awards and a few other things too also influence this. The rules to be eligible still very much favor legacy studios IIRC. But, with this that may change? Har…

Honestly? I expected this to be talking about the MiSTer project FPGA core[1]. That has been tuned so it's capable of running the AREA5150 demo[2] which is an insane challenge (AFA…

I've said for years that any smart thermostat should have a bimetallic backup that controls maximum ranges and acts in the dumbest way possible. Just max temp and min temp for AC a…

So there is a reason that in the C++ spec if a std::thread is still joinable when the destructor is called it calls std::terminate[1]. That reason being exactly this case. If the h…

I'm reminded of Raymond Chen's many many blogs[1][2][3](there are a lot more) on why TerminateThread is a bad idea. Not surprised at all the same is true elsewhere. I will say in m…

Why github didn't is beyond me. Even if something isn't merge clean doesn't mean linters shouldn't be run. I get not running deployments etc. but not even having the option is pain…

I don't disagree... but, there is a use case for orgs that don't allow forks. Some tools do their merging outside of github and thus allow for PRs that cannot be clean from a merge…

You are correct, I need to edit my post because they both boot up in unreal mode. The 32bit Segment limit is an unreal mode thing.

> it was only very recently that your 64 core CPU stopped pretending to be an 8086 during initial boot Still Does[1]: >> After a RESET or INIT, the processor is operating in 16-bit…

They would not, the term you're looking for is "Loading Gauge"[1]. The US freight loading gauge is one of the larger ones. That said there are other reasons a subway could end up b…