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Random inconsistencies such as using push/pop for individual registers instead of pusha/popa for space constrained bits or setting the same register to the same value twice in a ro…

The assembly really, really hurts to read.

Honestly, me too.

Honestly, I agree. I just can’t bring myself to trust an organization that allows these types of underhanded things to happen in the first place. The fact that this behavior even g…

https://www.theregister.com/systems/2026/06/25/micron-locks-... :(

On the note of PG&E, my electric bill averages to about $750 despite only running an air conditioner, several device chargers, a router, some lights and a fridge... Thanks PG&E.

Don't forget the word "epic" (in terms of the literary definition).

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Perhaps I am the odd one out here, but a small part of me wants to see what happens when you run a proprietary SOTA model on a laptop.

https://halupedia.com/2048-united-states-presidential-electi... Amazing.

"AI can make mistakes, so double-check responses."

That just ended up inadvertently reminding me, Windows Vista is actually almost old enough to be at the minimum legal drinking age in the US. Windows 8 is nearly a decade and a hal…

This almost sounds like The Monkey's Paw by Jacobs.

Kinda sorts. The systems that the "MacOS on CHRP" thing ran on had a very strange looking device tree, with some bizarre combination of PC and Mac peripherals. Apple Cobra Open Fir…

Mildly related, sort of, one can prevent expansion of variadic macros as follows: #define printf(...) int (printf)(const char *, ...); I keep on seeing many random code bases just …

You also get "Program Files (ARM)" (including a complementary "SysArm32") on older arm64 systems too.

If you want to download SARS-CoV-2, here you go: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/NC_045512.2

The latter is known as a "twiddle" in BSD land. (c.f: https://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-release-10/src/sys/... )

At least since maybe the DEC Alpha 21264. It could address 48-bits of VA space, but that comes with caveats due to PALcode specific intricacies. I think VMS (or was it Tru64?) uses…