Knowingly.

Microkernel architectures still always involve doing a full context switch when moving between processes. All the registers need to be reloaded, importantly including the entire page table. The page table flush is particularly painful.

A hybrid is the answer for many people. They work well. Electric continues to improve but is still too much of a niche product.

I recently bought a new car. If I could lay my hands on something like a RAV4 Hybrid I'd be all over it. Good luck. I bought a VW Taos instead.

...laura

A few years ago I ported some legacy device firmware from its ancient Sun-based development environment to gcc (68k cross-compiler) and Linux. Most of the code compiled reasonably as-is. Some of it required a bit of hand-holding, like telling gcc that I really did need to store four characters one at a time rather than a single long when talking to a dual-port RAM interface.

Some of the low-level OS code did in fact require assembly. So be it.

...laura

I accept that no matter what I do at airport security it will be wrong. This is, according to some sources, by design. Keeps the bad guys on their toes. Something like that.

As a Canadian the only biometric ID I have is my passport. Despite the pressure to do so, I do not use it for domestic flights. International flights only. For U.S. domestic flights I use my drivers license. For Canadian domestic flights, my pilots license.

...laura

Have any of these people ever been to England?

...laura

The gym where I work out has Sirius XM as their background music, variously Hits 1 or The Pulse. If you told me it was all pre-recorded loops and/or AI I wouldn't doubt it.

The gym's soundtrack has nevertheless introduced me to some neat new music, duly added to my workout playlist. In that sense it's served its purpose. It's also exposed me to some truly dire excuses for music. People buy this garbage?!

The radio-friendly versions of songs are sometimes inadvertently amusing. "My give a craps are on vacation" "I'm a real tough kid I can hannnndle it"

...laura

Hubble has provided a spectacular return on its investment, both in science results and in PR (i.e. pretty pictures).

Is it worth additional refurbishing? Is it worth bringing back to Earth? Both decisions are way above my paygrade. In many ways JWST is "better", but will it capture the public's imagination the way Hubble did? I doubt it.

...laura

Nobody has any issue with legal immigrants. Nobody ever did.

It's the other kind that people have issues with. Not to mention efforts to erase the distinction in the first place.

...laura

I'm doing Android development at work and have a couple of test devices that are on Samsung's upgrade list. I was looking forward to having Android 15 hardware to play with. Then Samsung went dark so I bought a cheap Brand X Android 15 tablet from Amazon. It does what I need to do.

...laura

Somehow it seems like every crisis can only be solved by abolishing capitalism. Over-population, ozone hole, incipient ice age, global warming, uh, sorry, climate change. You name it.

...laura

I'm seeing lots of misleading advertising these days. Get our credit card and you too can be a high-roller. The world is your oyster, as one campaign puts it.

WRONG

Credit cards aren't free money. They're a short-term loan. They give you convenience and financial leverage, but do not automatically make you wealthy. The money you spend on your card must be paid back. And then some.

FWIW I have two credit cards, Visa and (Platinum) American Express. Visa is handy for online shopping. I use my Amex almost exclusively for travel. I must have done something right, they've invited me over the years to upgrade from Green to Gold to Platinum.

...laura

There's always "powershell.exe -command ..." to get PowerShell to download an .exe from a web server and run it.

"PC" meant "primary cassette", the main paper tray of HP printers of the time. Other paper trays connected would say other things there when out of paper. "Letter" is the paper size.

Exactly: Pong introduced the very concept of video games.

...laura