Meltdown was never a problem on AMD but it was a problem on Apple ARM, so not only Intel.

s/sidekicks/kickbacks

They get tax from those that work at Apple. Maybe some politicians are getting sidekicks. Ireland get tax by letting Apple pay almost no tax in all of Europe. And Ireland takes more money from EU than it pays. Of course most of the other EU countries are not happy about it.

No, you are wrong. If you want performance AND you want 32-bit pointers you can use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Then you get the benefit of 16 64 bit GPRs, PC-relative addressing and other features that INCREASE performance. There is no good reason to run a 64-bit x86 OS in 32 bit mode.

64-bit ought to be faster: 16 64-bit GPRs, PC-relative addressing etc. If you want smaller pointers, it is nothing hindering you to run 32 bit apps on the 64-bit OS.

I think you are right, it is very few things Trump has actually done, and I can imagine that he likes to take credit for it. But is it not sloppy reporting from WSJ?

Most of this was already in place last year during the Obama administration. What is new now?

and how is the pr0n reported to them, that is the interesting part!

It is not enough to have a mac, you need to have a recent >=~ 2010 mac to be able to use the latest OS and xcode. Now, if anything had happened with the mac line since 2010, maybe there would be a reason except to grab money, I *guess* you can develop android apps on a 386 with enough memory, but certainly on Apple hardware from 2010 that allows *much* more memory and power than the 2017 mac "pro".

ff your dataset is 20 elements then every in-place sorting algorithm will be equally cache friendly (on the d-cache), if you are worried about the i-cache, I guess it is better to use just ONE sorting function, qsort for example (you will need a fast sort for larger arrays anyway).

If you would run your sorting algorithm on a really small data such as 20 elements (and care for O(1)), my guess is that a normal bubble sort is not what you want. I guess you would use a combination of loop unrolling and some SIMD tricks and maybe a memory pre-fetch and that the result would NOT look like bubblesort.

Obama being christian is not a fact at all, I would guess he is an ateist (like me --- and I would guess Trump as well), but certainly it is debatable and not a fact.

To my knowledge Hurd has not been a high priority project nor received money for development in decades, so I fail to see how that can sum up anything of their "high priority" goals.

Would the lawyers of 7 out of 8 companies advised their clients to STFU and hope the issue goes away. if asked:
Would your company help killing innocent children?
Would your company help gas minorities to death?
Would your company help registering Christians for the state of China?
Would your company sell unhealthy food?

For how many of those questions would it be ethical to duck the question?
Why would you not like to answer any of the questions?

You say Syria.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

How many immigrates to USA?
How many immigrates to Turkey?
How many immigrates to Sweden?

What is the population of USA, Turkey, and Sweden?

Who has the most liberal immigration policy?

It is quite bold to claim that the USA has one of the most liberal immigration systems, do you have _any_ data to back that up?

If you think about how rich USA is, and how few refugees enter the country, could it not be that just _maybe_ your statement is not true? What i mean is that there are lots of countries out there.

Turist VISA is very liberal if you are from an EU country (ESTA), but I guess that it is similarly easy to enter EU from USA. And I guess you do not need to give your finger prints on arrival (yet), but I might be wrong and I know it has been discussed.