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Legal definition of both assault as well as battery is state dependent.

An assault charge is likely relevant for most positions.

If I hire a convicted felon with a track record of assault and they end up assaulting another employee or customer, I’d feel responsible.

The victim would probably hold me legally responsible.

I’d feel more comfortable hiring someone with a 100% track record of never having been convicted of assault.

If you disagree, is there any number of assault convictions that would change your mind? Or do you mentally wipe the slate clean no matter what?

I can't believe anyone would do a study about this for two reasons.

First, well, duh. Don't need a study to tell you this.

Second, was this done for someone to explain why they're not successful? A lot of people want to justify a lack of effort because the chips are stacked against them. All any of us are supposed to do though is be the best version of ourselves we can be.

There will always be someone smarter, taller, better looking. Who cares? Do your best.

I've programmed in 6502 Assembly for decades and your skepticism is right on.

These comparisons have so many variables that they are extremely hard to make accurately.

FTA - I would have guessed that the 8088 is much faster at about the same clock speed, because it has more 16-bit operations and does multiplication and division in hardware.

Does the compiler of the compiler make use of these extra 16-bit operations? How many layers of abstraction does it go through for each of the environments? Does it use DOS interrupts when running on DOS and optimized machine code on CP/M?

These comparisons are strange thought experiments.

OK imagine you have $500 million in revenue and $154 million in losses.

That means you've been selling $1.00 for 70 cents.

Not sustainable. If their customers don't like what they're doing, it's not surprising. Because anyone buying $1.00 for 70 cents is going to be angry when it ends.

If their developers don't like what they're doing, it's not surprising. Anyone benefiting from a company paying them more than they can afford is going to be angry when it ends.

Who will pay for Stack Overflow servers and maintenance if OpenAI is just going to scrape their content and stop people from going to Stack Overflow?

There is a voltage regulator in the standard Commodore 64 power supply that fails catastrophically. Specifically, it sends > 5 volts down the 5 volt line.

When this happens, depending on how long it's on it can fry every chip on that line.

That's why everyone advises not to use the original power supplies even for a quick test. Even if it tests 5 volts before you plug it into the computer it can fail at any moment.

I knew the embarrassment level was going to be turned up to 11 when your link was to archive.org.

One of the most rewarding things I have done in the past few years is learned component-level repair on Commodore 64s.

Take a dead 64 showing nothing but a black screen, try the dead test cartridge, follow its lead or start desoldering, socketing and replacing chips.

And suddenly you have a working forty year old Commodore 64.

Easily 90%+ of the faults on Commodore 64s, especially the early models.

My Christmas 1982 model died with a faulty PLA well within the warranty period.

I... gave an honest and reasonable assessment of the book. I think I gave it 3 stars.

He posted his review within a day or two of me posting my review.

How did Apple become so successful making high-end CPU chips on their own so quickly?

I reviewed a programming book on Amazon must've been 15+ years ago.

The author posted a review of me on his blog. Not a review of my review. Of me and everything he could find out about me on the public Internet.