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Interesting that you see the definitive Amiga as being the A1200 - the definitive one for me was definitely the A500/A500+ - it was definitely way more popular! BTW, I don't think …

It's a bit complicated and it depends on what exactly you're measuring. The 68000 CPU has 32-bit registers internally, the address bus is 24-bit, and the data bus is 16.

Cool hack, but I thought this was actually going to be using phone calls! A few years back, I built TeleDoom ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3-pje0PpfU ) for the TADHack hackath…

I think the Technic Lego kits that I grew up with (that were more about how things worked rather than looking exactly like the thing) have been rebranded as "Lego Education": https…

I have to confess I'm not really up to speed on the situation but, from the article... > However, last month the watchdog said a revised deal that included selling cloud gaming rig…

If the case was subject to reporting restrictions (which seems quite possible given what he says), it might be illegal for him to tell us the names.

In the actual example, I don't think the engineers were trying to patent something obvious - it's just not unusual for engineers to casually throw around the word "obvious" for thi…

Working a 4 day week isn't mentioned in the article - maybe the position you were approached for was special? ...but I would not be at all surprised if the requirement to be in the…

In previous employment (as a software engineer), I've been told to do this too - mainly around inventions we were trying to patent. The reason is slightly less nefarious than you m…

Thanks, both! This was used in a static build that decrypted and checksummed its binary before execution, which ruled out naive implementations of the attacks above. I agree there …

I've seen this used preemptively - have the process ptrace itself on startup (and then do nothing with it) to make it impossible (or at least far-from-trivial) for other interested…

Have you tried floki ( https://github.com/Metaswitch/floki ) - this is what we use to solve this problem.

Here's the course list for Cambridge for 2019-2020: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/1920/cst/ Yes, there are courses on Java and C/C++ (and also LATEX, MATLAB and Prolog!), but t…

Thanks! I agree with your reading that changing the default username and password and re-exporting would count as modification. However, it seems there are plenty of Ubuntu .deb mi…

Do you have any other references on this? It seems that it all hinges on what a "modified version" of Ubuntu is. Is redistributing their packages outside of a full disk image a mod…

Interesting thought! I think the problem is that it's hard to parallelize this effectively across a network with Internet-scale latency - individual matrix multiplications parallel…

Agreed. We compost fruit and vegetable waste in our garden, but it is scary how much other food waste (as well as meat and fish bones goes in our "blue bin" for external composting…

I live in London and am married with 2 kids, working in tech. Personally , I'm not seeing too much difference. * Energy prices are higher, and this has had a knock-on effect, but I…

I think we're conflating Kubernetes with containers here. I definitely agree that databases don't benefit from running under containers - they are pet-like (and so don't benefit fr…

Yes, I use 1p Mobile too - moved from Three after they abandoned their 123 plan. Have used it for about 10 months and been very happy with it! (Like the parent, no links with them,…

I don't seem to be able to post on his blog (400 Bad Request), so posting here instead... Interestingly, it looks like Rust (and C via clang) both generate something like the follo…

Even if they're swapped, the maths doesn't work out - the ratio of squares is 1:42 while the ratio of latencies is 1:1500.

Agreed. I didn't want to spoil at the time, but yesterday you would have been unlucky with both these word choices!

...unless any of those letters appear in the answer - then you're locked into including them in subsequent guesses! Even worse if your guess had them in the right location!

Is it possible they use io_uring for networking?