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  have you micro-retired yet

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  The most normal numbers for an IPO, courtesy of Anthropic: • FY25 revenue: $4.59B, up 1,088% YoY • Operating loss: $8.06B • Compute + infrastructure spend: $7.33B, up 190% • Cash + short-term investments: $20.28B • Future cloud, compute + infrastructure obligations: roughly $518B

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  lmaoo https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/excel/functions/copilot-function Excel retiring the COPILOT function in Excel, an horror that should have never existed

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  Security you can trust through fTPM technology (Pluton)

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  Yossi Khayet and Adam Morrison at Tel Aviv University wrote a paper arguing that the Arm weak memory model doesn't offer structural performance benefits compared to TSO. That was through examining the TSO performance behaviour on the Apple M1 and M4 generations and characterising where the observable performance impact came from. They then argued that the performance pitfalls weren't attributable to TSO structural issues and could be addressed on a TSO-centric design. https://dl.acm.o...

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  Cambridge's humanities departments are quite rotten - and it's *not* a single case, it's not just Jason Arday that ought to be fired but a far bigger problem. > Dr William O’Reilly, an associate professor in early modern history, was allowed to return to his job last term after telling a University tribunal that he copied around 4,000 words of his student’s essays “inadvertently” and “in a situation of extreme personal difficulty”. https://www.varsity.co.uk/news/27433

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  The lone NVIDIA branded x86 part (80386SX clone CPU core embedded in a SoC) https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/uli-m6117c/

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  old WinHEC slide

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  uh... https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/safety-security/selfie-video-sign-in/

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  > In Q2 2026, Broadcom's software segment reported a 93% gross margin and an operating margin of approximately 79%

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  seeing the US potentially removing DST story and I have a proposal: a single timezone across all of the United States, with it being UTC China does a single country-wide timezone so it's possible

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  I love monolithic kernels https://www.phoronix.com/news/Apple-Magic-Bluetooth-Battery

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  > take care of your body, your future doctor is using ChatGPT to pass med school

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  government-sponsored holidays @ adx florence resort

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  the new XNU sources look good > { .cev_selector = 0x08a4, .cev_name = "INST_MICROCODED" }, that's a fun perf counter

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  qemu 11.0 is out with its fair share of bugs of my own making aaaa

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  boredom...

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  Reverse Midas touch: everything I end up messing with has some breakage

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  can I just be a tiny bit more... normal? getting tired...

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  As far as I can tell one of the big BeOS mistakes was having its API defined in C++. Makes compiler updates harder than they should be, especially as C++ ABIs were far less stable back then

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  targets the VAX huh > Linux version 2.4.16 (airlied@radon.limerick.parthus.com) (gcc version 2.95.2-linuxvax-dynamic-dev (CVS)) #28 Wed Feb 12 09:55:28 GMT 2003

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  wonder if noMMU Linux worth playing with some more before it eventually goes

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  went home today for a bit and came to my mind that I had those

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  hart or heart?

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  PSRAM over USB

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  Seeing NVIDIA and AMD not even paying lip service in the OpenCL 3.1 announcement is worrying

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  @frumble @Migueldeicaza doesn't look like a failure to me - more like that the central government didn't like it. (And the Argentina one won't either)

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  don't know what else I expected from the RISC-V spec

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  Jailbreak (noun): being able to run just-in-time compiled native code on a device you own

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  The mainframe is gaining a new instruction set: arm64 https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-arm-kernel/cover/20260402042125.3948963-1-seiden@linux.ibm.com/