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Today I learned that x86 has a floating point version of the `nop` instruction, called `fnop`. It does nothing, but unlike the regular `nop` it uses the floating point unit to do nothing.
Steve Jackson Games:
"Here are the numbers: A product we might have manufactured in China for $3.00 last year could now cost $4.62 before we even ship it across the ocean. Add freight, warehousing, fulfillment, and distribution margins, and that once-$25 game quickly becomes a $40 product. That's not a luxury upcharge; it's survival math."
wink posted Mar 21, 2025
More and more I notice a tiny nitpick of an annoyance in the fediverse. People who have their real name (or something that can be mistaken for it) as a handle, so if you mention them it's just @john and I have to hover or guess which john that might be. (If you follow people more than hashtags it's usually the same people being mentioned by people, but there are of course more collisions than with nicknames). OK, Twitter handles also weren't nicknames in all cases, but at least unique.
Installing OSes and using OSes are two different hobbies
It’s almost funny how, like two years ago, the big discussion was whether software engineers have a duty to employ the most rigorous methods (formal specification, generative testing, advanced static typing, etc.) when building software, whether we ought to be a licensed profession, be held accountable for poor engineering, etc. Now the only topic is how all code will be written by LLMs in 6 months
wink posted Mar 11, 2025
Unexpectedly I have something positive to say about Windows (10): The alt-tab dialog with the preview is actually good. Better than macOS und better than half the ones in Linux window managers/desktop environments.
Win-1/2/3 for pinned apps works but it's also broken in that if you e.g. close your main browser window (not the second one opened) and then reopen it, they're switched and you can't change the order. Yeah, you could accidentally close the 2nd and restore it, but most applications don't have this functionality, only browsers.
wink posted Mar 10, 2025
I bet none of the wayland apologists have ever tried to remap capslock in two different window managers. (The rest seems to work fine, I'm not hating on wayland - just on the people who insist it's so awesome).
tyler durden: the things you own end up owning you
rustc: actually, that’s impossible
wink posted Mar 8, 2025
Just pasted a string in all-caps into vim because I needed to lowercase like 3 words.
Am I becoming too lazy? (the shell was already open, but I had to start vim)
Given it’s international women’s day, I’d like to encourage you all, but especially Dutch men to read these ‘anti-acknowledgments’ in a PhD thesis. This is not from somewhere else, it’s from Delft. And it’s not from the 1950s, but from the present. Unfortunately what academic life and culture in The Netherlands is still like. The author is just one of the few who actually spoke up about it, but there are many stories like it.
(Alt at https://pastebin.com/cqLvxX1f)