mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06
take care of your body, your future doctor is using ChatGPT to pass med school
Jailbreak (noun): being able to run just-in-time compiled native code on a device you own
We argue that these issues are addressable in hardware; in fact, we find that the M4 already resolves the SIMD slowdown. Moreover, the slowdowns can be mitigated with simple software changes. With these software changes, the harmonic mean of per-application TSO slowdowns across our entire benchmark suite decreases from 4.2% to 1.9%.
We find that Apple silicon TSO mode preserves Arm weak-memory optimizations, typically yielding execution times within 3% of Arm mode across modern applications and classic benchmarks.
The mainframe is gaining a new instruction set: arm64
qemu 11.0 is out with its fair share of bugs of my own making aaaa
the new XNU sources look good
> { .cev_selector = 0x08a4, .cev_name = "INST_MICROCODED" },
that's a fun perf counter
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”.
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
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
Reverse Midas touch: everything I end up messing with has some breakage
don't know what else I expected from the RISC-V spec
wonder if noMMU Linux worth playing with some more before it eventually goes
can I just be a tiny bit more... normal?
getting tired...
Is there some big usb-over-ip installation somewhere
Probably not that security sensitive because on the same machine but WSL2
PSRAM over USB
Seeing NVIDIA and AMD not even paying lip service in the OpenCL 3.1 announcement is worrying
hart or heart?
boredom...
In Q2 2026, Broadcom's software segment reported a 93% gross margin and an operating margin of approximately 79%
