Because non-perfect CPU prefetchers can wander about accidentally, causing a random 4K page to be loaded.

or even negative value wrt the whole of society

If you've worked at a large company, a product this old, they probably couldn't regenerate a compiled firmware without bringing in a dedicated team of archeologists to dig through internal repos, if they could even find older build machines. It's amazing how fast code goes stale in a moving target environment. Of course, the solution is to release the firmware as source code and blobs so old hardware can be maintained instead of filling landfills.

Why can they cheat to have color accuracy, and then color accuracy goes out the window later?

And they apologize ... for getting caught.

Car lithium batteries already don't peak charge or deep discharge, for that very reason.

In unrelated news, AMD is kicking Intel's butt in server performance.

Running an emulator inside a virtual machine in user space on real metal.

Imagine your favorite dictator living forever.

Someone has to maintain the machinery / robots no matter what. Until they become self-repairing ...

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Exactly, good that coffee isn't killing people. What are the other people drinking that we should avoid? It's probably the obvious answer (sugar).

Unlimited unlimited then? Nah dawg, I'm holding out for the true unlimited unlimited unlimited plan!

Google *just* integrated Duo into the default Android text message app!

They are not trying to figure out what to do. They are only trying to figure out how to do it. Just sayin'.