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You can have as many as you like, but Safari will kill them when you're not looking.

The biggest problem with monads that I am aware of is that they don't compose: if m1 and m2 are monads, then you can't automatically derive a new monad m3 where m1 (m2 a) and m3 a …

> You know what's the most interesting part of this whole article? The thing Rust is very famous for, memory safety, did not feature at all. I think that's the essential point, rea…

The GBA SDK is pretty minimal in terms of library support. It's mostly functions for accessing save data plus wrappers around syscalls found in the bootrom. Those syscalls are some…

What's so bad about _Generic? I would not let the name distract you - it's equivalent to overloading, not "generics" (i.e. parametric polymorphism) In that capacity I think it's qu…

Time to put my language lawyering cap on. C99 §6.7.2.1.13 > Within a structure object, the non-bit-field members and the units in which bit-fields reside have addresses that increa…

Isn't struct layout in C implementation defined in general? C itself doesn't specify any ABI. A given platform simply uses one as a matter of convention.

Etrian Odyssey released in 2007 and was a fun throwback to this sort of experience. The concept for this game is that the Nintendo DS's touch screen can be used to draw a map and k…

Nothing new under the sun.

Those rights, like to bear arms and freely associate, only exist on paper. That they are in a state of nominal existence and practical abrogation serves to deradicalise and defuse …

All my online friends are on Discord, but I don't like it. Family and IRL friends use WhatsApp.

I think the point is that Intel had such a lead in the Bulldozer era that for AMD to overtake them was a tremendous failure. I would not say that the first gen of Zen is was a clea…

The first smartphone I owned was a ZTE Blade 13 years ago. As a budget phone, that definitely had compromised performance. It's been years and years since I ever felt like my phone…

Ice Lake wasn't the first iteration of 10nm - that was the disastrous Cannon Lake in 2018.

I was approaching it from the perspective of "What would be useful to do on a Wii?" When you approach it from the perspective of "I want to play with Jazelle - what can I use?" it …

Array parameters are a lie and have always been evil. I'm only more convinced of that now.

This seems roundabout. If Elon Musk objects to The Onion using InfoWars' X accounts, can't he just make up a reason to ban them after the sale goes through? It's not like X can't u…

This seems very useless. I'm not sure Jazelle was ever used for anything, and I'm not sure why anyone would want to either - least of all on the Wii's IO processor. Still, this rep…

Intel just can't stop floundering. Alder Lake and Arrow Lake were talked up a lot, but Alder Lake only approximately caught up to AMD, and Arrow Lake is still well behind.

The most interesting part of this article for me is at the beginning. > Now imagine that calls could specify alternate return points, letting the callee decide the statement to ret…

I'm not sure I've ever seen a bigger case of pissing in the wind than Asahi Linux. I respect the dedication but it takes a special kind of personality to not wash their hands of an…

Adding onto that, the roadmap to Intel's next generation isn't exactly clear. Arrow Lake Refresh would have seemingly bumped core counts healthily, but that's cancelled now. I don'…

NDS and 3DS cartridges had a similar form factor but operated by a completely different protocol. I expect Switch 2 to do something like that, given that piracy-enabling cartridge …

Modchips on newer Switches use fault injections (clock/voltage glitching) but there exist mitigations for those. The Xbox One is confirmed to use them. I encourage you to watch thi…