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Tovalds was full of surprises at last week’s Linaro Connect conference, when he was asked about his favorite chip architecture. He didn’t blink before saying it was x86, not ARM. Torvalds has an affinity for x86 because of the infrastructure and ecosystem
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RISC CPUs are a bit of PITA to develop for, while CISC has a lot more room for automatic processor-dependant optimization.
Of course the elegance of RISC machine code is absolutely unparalleled, but sometimes the assebler codes are exercises in mental contorsionism (not that SSE isn't contorted, just think of the strange oniric sequences of punpckh**, punpckl**, pshuf*,...).
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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Javascript is a weird and wonderful language that lets us write some crazy code that's still valid. It tries to help us out by converting things to particular types based on how we treat them. Interesting. Possibly funny.
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Yup[^]
Oh, and...[^]
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Charlie Rose has interviewed the most important people in the world, from Vladimir Putin and Larry David. But last week, he did something unprecedented: he interviewed a robot. Yup, riiiight in the uncanny valley.
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The robot called itself and "artificial intelligence" - so what that makes us humans?
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Yahoo Inc disabled automatic email forwarding at the beginning of the month, the Associated Press reported, citing several users. "Don't leave, we're going to be best friends forever." *locks door*
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I'd expected more reactions to this news; without the security-breaches at Yahoo it would not have needed to create a vendor-lock in.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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A large-scale survey of the freelance economy shows that the number of freelance workers is growing quickly, with the number of U.S. freelancers hitting 55 million this year, up from 53 million in 2014 and 53.7 million last year. Most employers encourage me to work from home because of how I dress. I tell them no.
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There is an emerging movement to bring the web back to this vision and it even involves some of the key figures from the birth of the web. It’s called the Decentralised Web or Web 3.0, and it describes an emerging trend to build services on the internet which do not depend on any single “central” organisation to function. Whatever, man. Just gimme my cat pics and we're good.
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Decentralization sounds all good and everything, but it's impossible to keep it that way. Some people want to be in control, and others want to give up control. Just look at democracy. How long does it take for certain...parties, let's call them, to become the dominant force? Just throw some revolutions in there every now and then to swap out those in power.
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Sean Ewington wrote: and it describes an emerging trend to build services on the internet which do not depend on any single “central” organisation to function.
Which is only sensible since a single point of failure is always a dragon lying in wait, especially in the Internet world where a company can rise to the sky and fall to the slime in mere years.
Most managers are incompetent and rely on cunslutants (not a refuse). Being incompetent the managers recognize as "good consultants" the one with high marketing skills despite possible incompetence. Those "good consultants" then try to hammer "solutions" from what's available trying to do the smallest work possible for they don't kow how to do it (or don't even understand what kind of work is needed), so they usually end up strictly bound to the one technology and seller they know. And a big name always looks good in front of the other managers, you can always speak of "partnership with Google" while actually you're just a customer, and a small one at that.
DURA LEX, SED LEX
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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den2k88 wrote: especially in the Internet world where a company can rise to the sky and fall to the slime in mere years.
Years? I would say even faster
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I was being conservative, takingi nto account giants like Amazon, Yahoo (which is slowly fading away) and Facebook (which doesn't seem to be fading away, alas).
DURA LEX, SED LEX
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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Hiring managers share their sincere reasons to insist you work in the office—and a few tips for how you might convince them otherwise. (And four ways to get hired anyway)
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I work a lot with specialized hardware and often have to go in the workshop to test on the complete machines so I couldn't but I really wish I could. It would save me 130€ / month and 3 hours/day.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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What makes Marissa Mayer an expert? Her accomplishments at Yahoo?
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There are about 25 court cases throughout the country that have a suspicious profile If Google sees a court order that declares that some material is defamatory, they tend to take down or deindex the material, relying on the court’s decision.
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They took the saying "It's better to burn quickly than to slowly fade away" all too literally.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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Do they know the root cause yet? I mean, I know it's the battery, but is it the type, the wiring, a bad chipset (related to charging), circuit drawing too much power and overheating, bad phone design (trapping heat with battery compartment)?
I'm kind of wondering why this hasn't happened more (other manufacturers) and on more samsung phones.
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raddevus wrote: I'm kind of wondering why this hasn't happened more (other manufacturers) and on more samsung phones.
Probably because it's happened early and people quitted using it rather quickly.
Maybe they changed the design especially for Note 7, those things are BIG.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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I'm wondering too, if maybe it isn't Samsung's fault entirely.
Maybe they will find there is a chip in the battery circuit that came from certain production runs which isn't rated for expected current (due to bad QA) and then on those phones, they melt down.
That would be really unfortunate for Samsung. Hopefully, we'll hear more about a root cause, but often we do not.
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They hadn't issued a return call for certain batch numbers so it's probably a design issue. Thin hardware means less heat dissipation, while a big screen produces a lot of heat. Couple that with powerful processor and maybe a strong battery, so they thought they could have longer usage of high CPU power, and thin copper to save costs...
First edition Fiat Stilo caught fire when parked because the engine cooling fan was activated even with switched off car. Since there was as few copper as they could afford after 3-4 hours of functioning the circuit caught fire. Only in the concessionary my dad was working for six cars burned down in a week.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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