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Like any TV show there were good and bad episodes in Star Trek TNG. Then again, I can't name any episodes that made an impression on me. Except "Encounter at Farpoint" because it was the show's first episode.

Same with Dr. Who: most episodes are forgettable, but some like "Blink" and "Silence in the Library" stick with you forever.

I'm lamenting the fact seeing more and more actors I grew up with pass away. Walter Koenig recently and most of the Star Trek TOS cast. Except Shatner, who'll outlive most of us.

R.I.P. Patrick Stewart: Captain Picard, Gurney Halleck, Professor Xavier and more.

Losing trillions in market value isn't a minor correction. It's a rout.

Aaah, finally the sell-off has begun. Anthropic's listing will probably disappoint and OpenAI has already decided not to go public at this time (probably due to lack of demand for their stock).

Soon, we'll be able to buy DRAM and SSDs again cheaply.

This makes no sense to me. Why would a DevOps developer have access to the customer accounts including their private keys?

How can you "freeze" Bitcoin transactions? If you have the private keys you can always make transfers etc.

If they get away with $6.5 Billion Binance is done for. There's no way they'll be able to repay their customers.

I'm stunned that they had that much cryptocoin online to be stolen. Why didn't they put it in "cold storage" and only some information in the database which says how much each customer had?

OTOH I heard that the culprits didn't steal the private keys of the affected customers. If this is true the stolen cryptocoins are worthless.

But is wealth really material or is it mostly virtual? Musk may be one of the richest men on Earth but he doesn't have a Trillion in his bank account. He holds stock which is potentially worth that amount. But as soon as he were to sell it the price and value would sink and it would be worth much much less. How much less? I don't know exactly but I suspect at least half.

So maybe we should take into account the liquidity of the assets held by these Billionaires. Also, as we've seen with Steve Jobs that if you get cancer it doesn't really matter how much you have in the bank. You'll die the same just like everyone else. All that money won't buy you extra time.

And why not? You can just use CALL and make subroutines for repetitive tasks. Why would one need macro functionality which is basically inlining code like in C/C++. Inlining also makes the executable needlessly large. It may have its uses but I suspect most of the time just calling a function or subroutine is more desirable.

Hint: they use BIOS, which is still present on all modern PCs. Even if UEFI provides something similar it's way too fat.

And why do I need mouse and network? Just so the BIOS firmware can show me a graphical interface and connect directly to the internet?

I've always been downright suspicious of the creation of UEFI. It executes code before the operating system but doesn't really provide a hardware abstraction layer like BIOS does. Most operating system don't use BIOS or any other software layer and configure the hardware themselves. Why is it there then?

And unlike BIOS which is relatively small UEFI is "full-fat" almost the size of an operating system itself. It can even run its own applications.

The 1 million lines of C code comprising UEFI are riddled with bugs and this is just one of them. No doubt LLMs will be able to uncover a lot more of them.

Setting a breakpoint in the debug registers DB0 through DB7 and dumping registers and memory in your own debug exception handler.

Why would one choose NASM over FASM? The makers of KolibriOS (an OS written entirely in assembler) chose FASM but the reason eludes me.

To me all assemblers look alike and it would even be feasible to write one's own just for the heck of it.

This is the beginning of the end of Apple. I mean, the screen cracking within two weeks or normal use illustrates a complete lack of quality control at Apple!! They never even tested their product and just kicked it onto the market.

This will sink customers' trust in the brand and eventually the entire company will go under.

What about the display? There are no OLED or LCD factories outside of Asia. Or are they simply assembling foreign parts (knock-down kit) into a laptop?

Why is this website blocking the zoom function? I've never seen any site do this before.

Letting A.I. write the code will eventually sink the entire company.

Hopefully sooner than later, so microkernel operating systems can...move right in.

Management will get a Golden Parachute but the white collar workers will be left holding the bag.