"Excuse me
If I may
Turn your attention
My way
One moment
I won't plead
It isn't much
It's what I need
And what's so small to you
Is so large to me
If it's the last thing I do
I'll make you see"
And then an unsolicited dick pic.
Dual-ISA CPUs are weird, but surprisingly common in IBM land.
The 615 was one of their worst bets.
In the 90s, the company deeply deeply thought PowerPC was going to win. The problem was, the existing corpus of software was all written for x86.
IBM envisioned a brief “middle period” where customers would want to dip their toe into PPC, but weren’t 100% committed.
So, they designed a CPU that could run both.
Supposedly, switching x86 to PowerPC supposedly only took 5 cycles! Kind of amazing tbh, esp when you think about how much state would have to be saved/restored.
The idea was DOA however, because Microsoft absolutely refused to give any level of OS support. The chip is now only found in employee’s “pendants, earrings and the like” (lol).
The funny part is, IBM literally can’t keep the idea out of their heads. Their idea of a “universal OS” with “universal hardware” that can run any customer workload has been a recurring theme for over 50 years!
I’m not *insanely* surprised with their modern Dual-ISA cpu they just announced (ARM+Power) at hot chips…but it is pretty funny to see it crop up again and again.
Amancio piensa entonces en la importancia de generar un colchon de protección entre el clima y el programa, tan sensible en cuanto a particularidades de cuidado interior, como los hospitales.
El sistema de bóvedas funcionarían como un segundo techo a 12 metros de altura.
The year is 1950. The US Navy dosed every resident of SF with airborne bacteria for biowarfare experiments.
The year is 1965. The CIA funded a brothel in SF for mind control experiments involving LSD.
The year is 2025. Somehow all these AI companies in SF are getting funding.
Whenever I look at a building wall with a random-seeming mix of two brick colors, I think about decoding it as a bit stream.
Surely a university building somewhere has put something meaningful in the pattern.
Decisiones tomadas en las escuelas en el marco de lo que dije:
Estudio MIT / deuda cognitiva: https://t.co/erik50fEbv → Datos PIRLS 2021 (IEA — caída en lectura): https://t.co/7z5xcXvEQf