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I have a beefy AMD system and recently bought a macbook pro M5 pro. I'm still blown away by how much faster the M5 is than my AMD tower, while producing no heat or noise.

> Most if not all of the bugs being uncovered are memory related

I checked the stats. 73% were memory management related issues, mostly use-after-free.

The rest were logic errors of various sorts.

It's definitely not legal in my country (Australia)

If your AI is writing bad code then you need to change your AI. No current high-end AI should be producing bad code.

Why not use Qt-embedded, which is specifically designed for this kind of thing and works well?

I've actually been toying with writing an Algol 68 compiler myself for a while.

While I doubt I'll do any major development in it, I'll definitely have a play with it, just to revisit old memories and remind myself of its many innovations.

In most word processing software you just type "--", or "--- " to get an em-dash. It's not rocket science.

> Our AC plugs are, however, the safest design on the planet.

Not if you step on them with bare feet - those things are worse than LEGO. They could punch through a horse's hoof.

It's a patent on a physical process for measuring blood oxygen. It's not a software patent.

This has been in process for over a year. It's not a sudden thing. The press you saw was all part of a campaign to push the idea.

Wow. That's surprisingly lame.

I should have said "supermini". While mainframes had tried a variety of virtual memory schemes, the VAX was the first supermini to adopt the style of demand paged flat address space virtual memory which pretty much set the style for all CPUs since then. A lot of VAX features, like the protection rings etc., were copied to the 80386 and its successors.

Cockies are the pranksters of the bird world. They're smart and they think it's hilarious to mess with each other and anyone else. They also tear everything to pieces. So it's no surprise really that if any bird worked out how to operate a drinking fountain it'd be these hilarious little jerks.

The Bellmac-32 was pretty amazing for its time - yet I note that the article fails to mention the immense debt that it owes to the VAX-11/780 architecture, which preceded it by three years.

The VAX was a 32-bit CPU with a two stage pipeline which introduced modern demand paged virtual memory. It was also the dominant platform for C and Unix by the time the Bellmac-32 was released.

The Bellmac-32 was a 32-bit CPU with a two stage pipeline and demand paged virtual memory very like the VAX's, which ran C and Unix. It's no mystery where it was getting a lot of its inspiration. I think the article makes it sound like these features were more original than they were.

Where the Bellmac-32 was impressive is in their success in implementing the latest features in CMOS, when the VAX was languishing in the supermini world of discrete logic. Ultimately the Bellmax-32 was a step in the right direction, and the VAX line ended up adopting LSI too slowly and became obsolete.