Back when working at Sun, I did in fact see Gosling drinking tea in the cafeteria.

See extended data figure 1 (page 14) for comparisons with other polyols, including Xylitol.

The whooshing sound being played by a SoundBlaster AWE32!

I passed by the Creative Labs office in Milpitas, CA last week. Their company sign, unfortunately, is in a terrible state of disrepair, but thought about how great their sound cards were back in the 90's.

ChatGPT vs Dr. Sbaiso? Bring it on.

Hey, floppies were a great start! I came home from computer camp in 1994 with parts of a Slackware Linux distribution on 40 floppies. I was excited... my parents not so much. The compiler package fit on a whole 10 1.44MB disks and you could load up a usable system on top of a FAT16 filesystem (with metadata for long file names/unix permissions) if you didn't want to take the plunge and re-partition your hard disk.

Bok bok bok! Just barely!

Case law could be considered LD_PRELOAD.

Seconded. I bought a pair of the HD-280's 6-7 years ago. They're durable and comfortable with and without music. I still use them 5 days a week at the office.

You must be thinking of some other processor. The first released Alpha silicon, Alpha 21064, had a pipelined FPU for adds/subtracts/multiplies and a non-pipelined floating-point divide unit.

And yet another plug for Linode. I have been with them for over four years. Their infrastructure staff knows what they're doing (tech support has responded in 3 minutes on a Sunday night!) and they're hands-off with respect to how you want to run your box. Disk space is a little expensive, but it's not oversubscribed. Even the smallest accounts are well worth the money.

Companies already do for collecting sales tax in states where the companies have a physical presence.

Alright wise guy. Explain twitter.

Minor nit: fetch prediction logic in modern processors has to deal with unconditional procedure calls. Fetch pipelines aren't shallow anymore, so you need to predict the target address and speculatively fetch that cache line. Often this is before you even know you've just fetched a branch/call/jmpl.

The jump tables/switch statements in Ruby/Python/PHP make target prediction a necessity. The target of this jmpl is rarely the same twice in a row.

Or they have something to sell you. Marketers: Shooo! Go away! Leave me alone.

Let me guess, you inadvertently also found the candidates who eat candy constantly while at their desks.