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by winocm 2y ago
My condolences. I had SIRS/sepsis once and it really is a harrowing experience. It really changed me forever and as a bonus, if not to add insult to injury, my hair now falls out and barely grows. Wouldn't wish it on my worst enem
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by winocm 2y ago
Don't forget F77 codebases too.
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by winocm 2y ago
Complete anecdote, but my personal life experience is that offices only cause me to get more easily distracted and forget what I'm doing (which costs me time and productivity), whereas at home I can actually concentrate and not lose
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by winocm 2y ago
Off topic but tangentially related, here’s a fun fact, DEC Alpha actually ends up transparently converting IEEE single precision floats (S-float) to double precision floats (T-float, or register format) when performing registers loads and o
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by winocm 2y ago
Ah, my favorite instructions, 'hw_ldl/l', 'hw_stl/c', 'ldl_l', 'stl_c' and their quadword siblings.
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by winocm 2y ago
I guess the biggest difference is that Coldfire parts are still being produced (c.f: MCF52256CVN66). I'm not sure if Alphas are even being made anymore, even 15-20 years ago.
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by winocm 2y ago
To be fair, anything that does not support BWX is really painful to deal with. Take, for example, an 8-bit/byte store. Without BWX the sequence would be something like: bic a0, #3, t1 and a0, #3, t4 ld
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by winocm 2y ago
DEC Alpha support is somehow still in the mainline Linux kernel...
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by winocm 2y ago
In my experience, a LLM decided to not know type alignment rules in C and confidently trotted out the wrong answer. It left a horrible taste in my mouth for the one time I decided to look at using a LLM for anything and it keeps leaving me
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by winocm 2y ago
Mastodon, but infrequently.
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by winocm 2y ago
Honestly, I just quit using social media entirely for the most part. It’s been really mentally liberating.
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by winocm 2y ago
I took a cursory look at breaking it and it seems rather trivial in retrospect, just annoying at best since you have to rebuild the executable’s imports, relocations and section headers, along with removing the giant bloat sections that the
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by winocm 2y ago
I feel like general press calling it “bird flu” over “highly-pathogenic avian influenza” (as what it is called in literature) might be a big oversight…
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by winocm 2y ago
I still want to set up a copy of TeamWare SCCS… it seems to have several SunOS specific expansion extensions that are prevalent in many Solaris source files (such as %Z). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_WorkShop_Tea
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by winocm 2y ago
This is entirely possible. See copremesis, ICD10 code R11.13. It usually occurs due to intestinal blockage or fistulae.
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by winocm 2y ago
One heinous example is many implementations of '_FORTIFY_SOURCE', unless you want to resort to using lots of clang '__attribute__((__enable_if__(...)))' statements in your inline functions.
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by winocm 2y ago
Also https://blog.petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2022/03/15/ama-scope... . This mistake made some 20 years ago is a festering problem today.
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by winocm 2y ago
Emergency surgery that probably would have invariably killed me since the organ was already gangrenous. It got called "medically unnecessary" because apparently the person processing the claim couldn't read the fact that the
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by winocm 2y ago
Don't forget: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedman_doctrine https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0304405X76...
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by winocm 2y ago
Yeah, even integrating any C++ into it and calling any QEMU functions via extern "C" declarations when including the headers cause many issues because many variables are named "new" or have type cast issues. It's a
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by winocm 2y ago
That is honestly how I actually see these things being used now, they can be powerful tools if used effectively. The thought of people being replaced wholesale though…
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by winocm 2y ago
This is increasingly reminding me of those dystopian science fiction films.
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by winocm 2y ago
Reminds me about how many times I've ended up buying the same game I already own , but on another platform because the original is on something I no longer have reasonable access to anymore. (I don't have a television with a RF m
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by winocm 2y ago
Pretty much. Here's some declarations from an ancient UNIX (remember, UNIX(R) is a registered trademark of "The Open Group") ctags file to help show how that type of scheme works: ISDOT rm.c /^#define ISDOT(a)
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by winocm 2y ago
I learned of a cute side effect when one puts the function name on its own line, like above. In BSD of yore and modern contemporaries, one could often perform `grep '^function'` and end up finding the source file quite easily. I t
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by winocm 2y ago
Word of warning, I ended up getting a lot of strange compiler segfaults within xgcc when using when using `MKGCC=yes` instead `MKLLVM=yes` with NetBSD, specifically with floating point heavy code. I never did end up finding out why that hap
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by winocm 2y ago
Sure. I basically did the following on trunk: $ CPP=/usr/bin/clang MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX=/private/var/tmp/obj ./tools/build/make.py TARGET=arm64 TARGET_ARCH=aarch64 --host-compiler-type clan
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by winocm 2y ago
The M3 Max laptops can cross-build FreeBSD at a fraction of the time of the ThinkPad, being at around 791 seconds for `make -j17` versus the T14s being at 3210 seconds (with `make -j12`) according to the post above. No idea about power cons
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by winocm 2y ago
Doctor mode...
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by winocm 2y ago
There’s a similar story I’ve read before in a different paper regarding about an organ donor who drowned and then the recipient developed an extreme aversion to water. I don’t recall what the exact title or link to the article was though.

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