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WC3w6pXxgGd··on I'm 17 and wrote this guide on how CPUs run programs
This is fantastic. Great job! I like the easier to comprehend language than what you typically find when reading information about this stuff (wikipedia is one of the worst...).

You'd probably like Nand2Tetris. To be frank, I never finished it (it's so long!), but building a CPU from scratch was insightful (at the time - I don't remember much now, sadly).

WC3w6pXxgGd··on I'm 17 and wrote this guide on how CPUs run programs
> other than to prime people to look upon your writing with lower standards

Yes, that's the point. They're 17, so my expectations are lower.

I am impressed a 17 year old wrote this website.

WC3w6pXxgGd··on Inside a Fujitsu Ethernet chip from 1984
Twitter: https://twitter.com/kenshirriff/status/1647627682421567491
WC3w6pXxgGd··on Unpredictable abilities emerging from large AI models
Has Chomsky been right about anything?
WC3w6pXxgGd··on Joe Rogan Interviews Steve Jobs
This is the exact same argument people have made about every new piece of technology since the beginning of written history.
WC3w6pXxgGd··on Internet Archive joins opposition to the “SMART Copyright Act”
1. You're paying a subscription fee for _access_. It's irrelevant if you use the product.

2. It's insane to want the government to "protect" you from … not using Netflix. You seriously think it's okay for the government to force this?

WC3w6pXxgGd··on Making the dislike count private across YouTube
Odysee is a great alternative.
WC3w6pXxgGd··on Firefox 85 cracks down on supercookies
Why not use Brave? It has all of this, with Fingerprint protection turned on by default.
WC3w6pXxgGd··on Uber and Lyft ordered by California judge to classify drivers as employees
> If these companies can’t turn a profit while complying with the law then they don’t have a viable business model

Are you seriously telling me that if people don't interact freely in the way bureaucrats want them to interact, then those people should, by law, not be allowed to interact?

Big Brother knows best, huh.

WC3w6pXxgGd··on The Soviet web: the tale of how the USSR almost invented the internet (2017)
Should the novel be pro-soviet?
WC3w6pXxgGd··on Remington Arms Declares Bankruptcy
Surprising, since lockdowns and "protests" have greatly increased the rate of gun purchasing. In my state, all firearms were out of stock at the local shops for months.
WC3w6pXxgGd··on I Just Hit $100k/year On GitHub Sponsors
How is blaming socialism a bad thing? Has humanity learned nothing from the failure of socialism throughout the 19th and 20th centuries?
WC3w6pXxgGd··on Uber is laying off 3,700, as rides plummet due to Covid-19
If something is unprofitable, that is a signal that resources are being misallocated.
WC3w6pXxgGd··on IBM doubles its 14nm EDRAM density, adds hundreds of megabytes of cache
The cost will decrease over time, just like all tech.
WC3w6pXxgGd··on Suspicious Discontinuities
I'm also 5'9". After I listed 6'0" on my Tinder profile, I immediately got more matches AND those matches were much more responsive and willing to meet. Many wanted to come over immediately (without meeting up at a bar beforehand).
WC3w6pXxgGd··on Uber Announces Results for Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2019
Uber is responsible for the delivery experience, the restaurant is responsible for the food experience.
WC3w6pXxgGd··on Severed fibre cables disrupted internet access in eastern Europe, Iran, Turkey
Wait, this is actually how internet cables are laid?
WC3w6pXxgGd··on Sudo vulnerability
Pretty big oversight to not handle -1 or 2³².
WC3w6pXxgGd··on Google and Ambient Computing
You're no coerced in any way. Don't use Google.
WC3w6pXxgGd··on Chris Hughes, a Facebook Founder, Is Working With the Government to Break It Up
Since when is government good at anything?

It's simple: if you don't like Facebook, don't use it's products. It's not the proper role of government to interfere in private business.

WC3w6pXxgGd··on Ramroot – Run Arch Linux Entirely from RAM (2017)
Why would this be useful?
WC3w6pXxgGd··on Google Cloud Is Down
Anything created in-house at Google (GCP) is typically created by technically-proficient devs, those devs then leave the project to start something new and maintenance is left to interns and new hires. Google customer service basically doesn't care and also has no tools at their disposal to fix any issues anyway.

The infinite money spout that is Google Ads has created a situation in which devs are at Google just to have fun - there really is no incentive to maintain anything because the money will flow regardless of quality.

Source: I interned at Google.

WC3w6pXxgGd··on AMD Ryzen 3000 announced
What will you be doing that will actually use 24 threads?
WC3w6pXxgGd··on WhatsApp voice calls were used to inject spyware on phones
And nobody was surprised.
WC3w6pXxgGd··on Gameboy.live: A basic Gameboy emulator with terminal “cloud gaming” support
This is unbelievably impressive, especially from a college sophomore! How does a 19 year old know how to do this / have the time to do this!?
WC3w6pXxgGd··on We got banned from PayPal after 12 years of business
Having worked at PayPal in the past (and then Braintree), both companies are a total mess internally. Basically nobody knows exactly how the system works, and every new "feature" is just a hack upon the existing system.

In many ways, I'm surprised either company still functions without massive blackouts all the time. That's quite the testament to the founders' code, I guess.

WC3w6pXxgGd··on Facebook Bans Louis Farrakhan, Milo Yiannopoulos, InfoWars and Others
Farrakhan is a prominent leftist. He was at Aretha Franklin's funeral, seated next to Bill Clinton. The leaders of the Women's March are big fans of his.
WC3w6pXxgGd··on Facebook Bans Louis Farrakhan, Milo Yiannopoulos, InfoWars and Others
Just because you disagree with Milo's opinions or consider him toxic is not a reason to ban him.
WC3w6pXxgGd··on Tim Berners-Lee says tech giants may have to be split up
Why do you trust governments so much?
WC3w6pXxgGd··on Tim Berners-Lee says tech giants may have to be split up
Maybe it's not a problem.
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