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• Post #1948950

  Glancing through @paulmckrcu's perfbook, it occurs to me that the strength/weakness of a CPU architecture's memory model is in most cases reasonably approximated lexically. How does SPARC compare to Itanium? Well, I comes before S, so ia64 is the weaker of the two.

• Post #1917302

  Every time I turn my oven on to preheat I think I'm hearing the opening of A Love Supreme. It's not quite identical, but close enough that I wonder if it's a tribute by a Coltrane fan nestled somewhere in the depths of LG Corporation.

• Post #1917298

  Ways to make a software-rendered (on-screen) digital clock terrible: use a proportional-width fontanchor to the right edgedisplay secondsThe combination of all three is both (a) something I've now encountered multiple times in the last 24 hours, and (b) worthy of a lengthy prison sentence.

• Post #1917295

  Sad to say farewell to The Bad Plus, but glad I was able to catch the final tour.