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But is wealth really material or is it mostly virtual? Musk may be one of the richest men on Earth but he doesn't have a Trillion in his bank account. He holds stock which is potentially worth that amount. But as soon as he were to sell it the price and value would sink and it would be worth much much less. How much less? I don't know exactly but I suspect at least half.

So maybe we should take into account the liquidity of the assets held by these Billionaires. Also, as we've seen with Steve Jobs that if you get cancer it doesn't really matter how much you have in the bank. You'll die the same just like everyone else. All that money won't buy you extra time.

And why not? You can just use CALL and make subroutines for repetitive tasks. Why would one need macro functionality which is basically inlining code like in C/C++. Inlining also makes the executable needlessly large. It may have its uses but I suspect most of the time just calling a function or subroutine is more desirable.

Hint: they use BIOS, which is still present on all modern PCs. Even if UEFI provides something similar it's way too fat.

And why do I need mouse and network? Just so the BIOS firmware can show me a graphical interface and connect directly to the internet?

I've always been downright suspicious of the creation of UEFI. It executes code before the operating system but doesn't really provide a hardware abstraction layer like BIOS does. Most operating system don't use BIOS or any other software layer and configure the hardware themselves. Why is it there then?

And unlike BIOS which is relatively small UEFI is "full-fat" almost the size of an operating system itself. It can even run its own applications.

The 1 million lines of C code comprising UEFI are riddled with bugs and this is just one of them. No doubt LLMs will be able to uncover a lot more of them.

Setting a breakpoint in the debug registers DB0 through DB7 and dumping registers and memory in your own debug exception handler.

Why would one choose NASM over FASM? The makers of KolibriOS (an OS written entirely in assembler) chose FASM but the reason eludes me.

To me all assemblers look alike and it would even be feasible to write one's own just for the heck of it.

This is the beginning of the end of Apple. I mean, the screen cracking within two weeks or normal use illustrates a complete lack of quality control at Apple!! They never even tested their product and just kicked it onto the market.

This will sink customers' trust in the brand and eventually the entire company will go under.

What about the display? There are no OLED or LCD factories outside of Asia. Or are they simply assembling foreign parts (knock-down kit) into a laptop?

Why is this website blocking the zoom function? I've never seen any site do this before.

Letting A.I. write the code will eventually sink the entire company.

Hopefully sooner than later, so microkernel operating systems can...move right in.

Management will get a Golden Parachute but the white collar workers will be left holding the bag.

Big companies are notoriously overweight and need to trim down continuously. Microsoft is already a big bureaucracy and nothing like the start-up mentality it had throughout the 80's and 90's.

It's fine for them to get rid of excess weight. My guess is they could probably cut a lot more if they wanted.

If you get the offer take it and start your own company with it. There's no use in staying if you're not wanted and even though you'll get a severance package it won't amount to much more than a couple months back pay.

This entire A.I. hype is going to get many people burned, especially those whom are investing for their pensions.

And everyone is playing along. It seems to me half the internet is filled with false recommendations and overly optimistic outcomes of their software projects.

And even if the claims are true what use will we have for hundreds of Microsoft Office clones? This A.I. boom might benefit some but will be the undoing of many valuable ISVs like Microsoft and Adobe with potentially trillions of stock market value lost.

The C# version uses unsafe raw pointers which is practically the same as writing it in C. No surprise then that the outcomes are similar.

Star Wars is a complete write-off AFAIC. I'm done with Star Wars after the last trilogy and the illogical return of Darth Maul in The Clone Wars.

They've now even made a TV show about Darth Maul (Star Wars: Maul - Shadow Lord) during the Galactic Empire period. This is just beyond ridiculous. This is just rubbing salt into the wound and saying: "We can do anything we want, no matter how stupid or illogical. You'll eat shit and you'll like it!"

I'll never get over Darth Maul's return. I'll detest Star Wars for the rest of my life just because of this. The person that came up with it (Dave Filoni?) should be fired.

When you pay $22 a month for an ad-free tier you expect it to be free from promotional content or trailers as well. Disney is going to be hurtin' big time in the coming year as subscribers leave in droves.

I haven't paid any fee to Google. Where does it say that you have to? Only Apple requires me to pay a (yearly) fee.

"Earlier in life" doesn't imply it's targeted at kids or teenagers. The author should state this more clearly if that's his intention.

I'm very skeptical having been in this business for decades. It's almost common knowledge that any PHP site can be hacked by intelligence agencies or state actors due to either errors in the runtime or the solutions themselves.

This incident got a lot of publicity, but what about the thousands of plugins out there full of hacks and sloppy programming?

The hubris of trying to improve on nature's design.

I find this book much too simplistic to explain circuit theory and design. It's a nice introduction for kids maybe, but beyond that it's not very useful.

Sony has also exited the video camera business ("HandyCam") it seems. I've been wanting to buy a replacement for mine but can't find any Sony products in this category.

Instead they come up with a $6000 Walkman type audio player. I can build one which is probably as good for $50 in parts.

This robot looks a lot more "unnatural" compared to the Chinese robots currently being used in everything from gymnastics to fighting matches. Many people I showed videos of those thought they made with A.I. To be honest I wasn't completely sure myself.

Also, I wonder if (as in the case of XGO) it isn't easier to just automate the moving of crates onto the conveyor belt instead of using a robot picking them up and hauling them there.

To me PHP has an aura of "unprofessionalism" around it. Many of the PHP solutions have been hacked together by amateurs who sought a solution for their own problem and by chance it became widely used.

The language itself was one big hack when it was created. It has improved somewhat but just like with C++ you can still use the C syntax that's at the core of it all.

This isn't the last we'll hear of PHP vulnerabilities because the exploits exist on multiple levels. Not just the language (runtime) but the solutions using it too.

C# (ASP.NET) and Java.

People shouldn't be using PHP. I was shocked some security focused websites are even using it. I just hope there's nothing of value on their servers and that it's not connected to their internal network in any way. In my experience this is almost always the case because it makes maintenance and development easier but effectively exposes your entire organization to the internet.

That 70% of the internet still uses it is shocking to me. These organizations deserve to get burned badly. Let this incident be a warning to all of them!

PHP has been a security dumpster fire for decades. It's just how the entire web ecosystem works: some web designer lacking any technical know-how is asked to make a site and dumps WordPress on it out of habit.

Even though there are much more secure CMS technologies out there like Umbraco or Piranha (both ASP.NET) and web stores like NopCommerce (ASP.NET also).

There are just too many technically clueless people building web sites and web stores.

Kridsdale are you a man?

PHP has been the worst thing to happen to the web. It was insecure many decades ago and still is. Even CGI with C is probably more secure, never mind technologies like Java, ASP.NET and Rust with are far more secure.

I even have a preference for web stores which use ASP.NET or Java since I know my personal information are safe there.

There are probably thousands of web stores using PHP unwittingly too. I've noticed only about half of them have been taken offline.

Having seen with my own eyes what you can do with assembly per KolibriOS I agree with you.