So some parents whine because truth hurts, or what? Or is there a single item that is not easily verifyable?

Ever had spaghetti ice cream with strawberry sauce and grazed white chocolate as “parmesan”

That’s how I got a free netbook. The netbook had 32GB flash with windows and office occupying 27+GB. Then windows wanted to do an update - with an 8+GB file. Spot the problem. And windows can get quite annoying with updates. As the netbook could not be expanded, and attempts to redirect the update to a USB stick did not work, a newer netbook was bought, and I got the old one. Linux plus libreoffice plus a bunch of extras happily sat in 4GB…

Hacking. Each and every time it is part of a movie or TV series.

So have a look at what amount of taxes the rich in the US (don’t) pay, and you know how patriotic they are.

This reminds me of “Back to the Future”, where Lorraine calls Marty “Calvin Klein”, after she had seen his underwear…

Something like rats and sinking ships come to mind. Now that Trump shows his true fashist colors, some REPs don’t want to end up as Trumps Himmler or Göring…

Let’s put it this way: You can produce unreadable code in basically any language. With Perl, it is just a bit easier.

And of course if you have the discipline of a good programmer, even your casual Perl programs should be readable. That’s what differenciates a good programmer from a hacker.

I have to admit that using CL-PPCRE does not really help me understanding the regexp any better. But this may be because I deal with complex regexps for decades now, and I just read them.

“See? If there is no government agency handlin’ radioactive waste, that problem goes away!”

Straight from the famous book “Making LOCs for Dummies”

They should be punished both for getting hacked and for only disclosing it only when the customer data got up for auction.

“Stupidity” would be the answer to both why he bought a cybertruck and why he wonders why people are laughing about his choice.

Yes, there are differences in certain x86 command sets. But they actually have a market. RISC-V is just a niche, and splintering in a small niche is making the support situation worse.

And it does not concern you that this RVA profile is version 23? Which means there are a number of CPUs based on lower versions, too, as they don’t just update on a whim? And they are incompatible, with version 23 because they lack instructions?

So a compiler would have to support at least a certain number of those profiles (usually, parts in the embedded world are supported for 10+ years!), and be capable of supporting the one or other non-RVA extension, too, to satisfy customer needs.

That is exactly what I meant with “too many standards”.

Several differing extensions of the RISC-V core machine instructions, for example. A pain in the rear for any compiler builder.

I’ll wait and see. RISC-V is a nice idea, but there are way too many different “standards” to make it a viable ecosystem.

Normal for a soft- or hardware project designed by a political committee.

I’m not really into the stock market, but I would not buy Boeing at the moment.

There is always the issue of “x applies” and “x is enforcable”. Think of Signal or Telegram here.