The Nokia-branded phones you see now are made by another Finnish company, HMD Global, that licenses the name. Nokia makes telecommunications infrastructure hardware.

That scene in the matrix is a reference to Uri Geller.

They said this when NVIDIA was riding high on the crypto mining boom. But once that dried up, the started selling GPUs to the AI crowd. NVIDIA seems to be very good at jumping on the next big thing early enough to keep the gravy flowing.

Saudi Arabia switched from "Arabic time" (based on local sunset) to conventional solar time in 1968.

Nah, Welsh is full W, Y and LL.

Are they actually selling these servers, or just making them for their own datacentres (replacing SuperMicro)? I thought it was the latter.

The compliance officer isn't government-appointed. They're usually selected by the directors. In smaller companies, it's often an additional hat worn by one of the usual C-suite (e.g. the CEO or CFO may also be the compliance officer). I am compliance officer for a company incorporated in China, although I am not a Chinese resident. My point is that the compliance officer in a Chinese company has a lot more power than an equivalent position in a typical western company. There isn't one person with the power to simply dissolve a company in most cases outside China. But the role also comes with serious responsibilities.

The person holding the position of compliance officer for a Chinese company has the power to dissolve the company if it's in serious breach of laws or obligations and they can't see a way to remedy the situation. They can also face prosecution if it can be shown that they were aware of such a situation and did nothing about it.

With all the crazy stuff they're doing, it really does lend credence to the conclusion that they don't plan to hold another election. But seriously, how do you think they plan to pull that off? Declare an emergency? Hold a sham election and tamper with the results? More active voter suppression?

China's been quite active in catching these scammers, because a lot of the people running the operations are Chinese expats (that they take back to China and imprison), and a lot of the scam victims are Chinese residents. China definitely won't be doing anything to facilitate these scams.

I write JIT compilers, you insensitive clod.

There's some discussion of semantic differences between x86 and classic (32-bit) ARM in Microsoft's porting guides, although AArch64 (64-bit ARMv8) is a bit different.

One that I've encountered several instances of recently on AArch64 is code making assumptions about semantics of floating point to integer conversion when the input value is out of range. Here's an example of a fix for one such issue (it's ironic that the comment said "round in a cross-platform consistent manner" when the function was unportable).

There's the usual stuff where you'll trigger different effects of undefined behaviour in the compiler on different platforms. I recently fixed code that was doing something like u | (((f & uint8_t(1)) << 31) >> (s - 1)) where u is uint32_t, f is uint8_t and s is int. The code isn't safe because of the implicit promotion on the left shift - (f & uint8_t(1)) is implicitly promoted to int size. On i686 and x86-64, it was being treated as an unsigned int (32 bits), so the right shift was a logical shift (shifting in zeroes); on AArch64 it was being treated as an int (32 bits), so the right shift was an arithmetic shift (propagating the sign bit). Changing it to u | (uint32_t(f & uint8_t(1)) << (32 - s)) avoided the right shift altogether and fixed it.

Well there's actually a review for Jet's earlier album Get Born, but it uses a lot of words to say very little, and gives the impression that the reviewer thinks he's a lot more clever and witty than he really is.

It would be pretty hard for MS to do the same things. A lot of OpenBSD's security comes from having a default configuration with a minimal attack surface. That's a compromise they've chosen to make, but it's at odds with what a typical desktop user wants, which is having a system ready for a lot of use cases out-of-the-box. OpenBSD is great for "network appliance" type applications. It's my first choice for routers, firewalls, proxies, etc. It's lightweight, secure and reliable in those applications But I wouldn't recommend it as a general-purpose desktop OS, and I also tend to use Linux for more general server applications.

In Australia, FTTC (to the curb/cabinet - fibre terminated at a cabinet or pit on the street, then copper to the customer premises), FTTB (to the building/basement - fibre terminated in a utility room in the building, then copper internal building wiring to each dwelling/office suite) and FTTP (to the premises - fibre terminated on the customer's premises) are all treated as different categories of service.

I currently have one FTTP service and one HFC service. I previously had FTTB. I have to say that FTTP gives better quality of service than FTTB in a 70-year-old building where they didn't want to pull cable to all 180 apartments did.