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  1. Please read about the differences between architecture and microarchitecture. RISC is part of the (instruction set) architecture and out-of-order execution etc. are part of the microarchitecture.

  2. Re:It's a dream stupid on The Psychedelic Drug DMT Can Simulate a Near-Death Experience, Study Suggests (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    And I never understood why it's called KDE! I mean the people that uses them aren't K's, okay?

  3. Save your trolling for something that matters...

  4. "I have worked with enough * to know that they are incapable of saying "hey I might be wrong." If you talk to just about any *, you'll hear that * is the best place on Earth and that * shit doesn't stink. It's impossible for * to be wrong because everything * is the best in the whole world."

    Replace * with just about every place in the world, USA, Germany, France, Russia, Australia, (...). Well not Sweden, a bunch of anti-nationalistic complainers.

  5. No.

  6. That's the reason the Fahrenheit scale doesn't fail 100% - it's correct at one point.

  7. ~35? Ones or twos complement? Word size?

  8. String theory, theories to be correct.

  9. "...caught up in invasive government surveillance" on To Catch A Robber, The FBI Attempted An Unprecedented Grab For Google Location Data (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    So how many people here don't understand the difference between government activities and activities of private companies? And for those (hopefully very few) that really don't understand this - why do you think these are in the linked article:

    "... FBI’s remarkable attempt to force Google ..."
    "The court warrants ..."

  10. Re:No native compiler on Julia 1.0 Released After a Six-Year Wait (insidehpc.com) · · Score: 1

    Templates are fine (for some definition of fine) for static type systems where types can be decided and code specialized at compile time.
    Julia is however dynamic and uses different mechanism.

  11. Are petascale computers programmed in assembly? on Julia 1.0 Released After a Six-Year Wait (insidehpc.com) · · Score: 2

    Otherwise claiming "Julia is the only high-level language that has run at petascale" is a bit of an exaggeration.

  12. Re:you can bet your last dollar on Researcher Finds A Hidden 'God Mode' on Some Old x86 CPUs (tomshardware.com) · · Score: 1

    If you think so you are very religious.

  13. Re:did VIA ever do anything right? on Researcher Finds A Hidden 'God Mode' on Some Old x86 CPUs (tomshardware.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    First this chip was designed at Centaur Technology in the US, a subsidiary of the main VIA. They design x86 processors, don't blame other crap on them.
    Second this isn't a problem with the chip - it's a problem in software not configuring the chip correctly according to the documentation.

    Third their x86 processors were designed for a specific market for which they are/were a good fit.

  14. Re:Is it on the die? on Researcher Finds A Hidden 'God Mode' on Some Old x86 CPUs (tomshardware.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Lot of work to find something (partially) documented. Sandpile lists the instruction as ALTINST, the code is documented by VIA as used for testing with an MSR (Machine Specific Register) bit to enable it. If not enabled I assume it would be treated as an illegal instruction.

    That some machine with a C3 processor didn't set the correct machine configuration is bad but not the end of the world - just set it correctly in the OS instead.

  15. Re:Monsanto on Monsanto Ordered To Pay $289 Million In Roundup Cancer Trial (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    none of them actually did anything wrong

    Citation needed. Actually it's not needed as your "none" makes the statement false, more than one farmer have been proven to deliberately plant seeds protected by a Monsanto patent without the right to do so.

  16. Re:Only Children Censor on Facebook Bans Sites That Host Blueprints of 3D-Printed Guns (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    You or another AC have already posted this "argument", doing it repeatedly is spamming/fishing for responses.
    Your argument is idiotic, that's why you don't get the responses you want. So please stop.

  17. Uphill - both ways.

  18. Re:Nothing new on Online Photos Can't Simply Be Republished, EU Court Rules (politico.eu) · · Score: 1

    No need to change the law. Just because you can find something it isn't yours, you entitled SOB!

  19. Re:"backwater" places on The Ultra-Pure, Super-Secret Sand That Makes Your Phone Possible (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Since before you were born.

  20. Re:millennium? on Microfilm Lasts Half a Millennium (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe you should click on the story link...

  21. Re: Overhead projectors... on Microfilm Lasts Half a Millennium (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 2

    OMicrosoft!

  22. Re:No! Just use open source on Do Businesses Really Need to Hire CS Majors? (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    I think you are responding to a post full of irony.

  23. Re:Get rid of trackers and see on Front-End Developer Decries 'Garbage' Design Choices on 'The Bullshit Web' (pxlnv.com) · · Score: 2

    It's fucking beautiful! No crap - just content.

  24. Re: Not just size and bandwidth on Front-End Developer Decries 'Garbage' Design Choices on 'The Bullshit Web' (pxlnv.com) · · Score: 1

    Remember that Mel worked alone.

  25. Re:The problem is the content authors. on Front-End Developer Decries 'Garbage' Design Choices on 'The Bullshit Web' (pxlnv.com) · · Score: 1

    You already said it: incompetent "designers".