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Cake day: October 1st, 2023

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  • Huge expense? Not one life lost, all infrastructure intact and got rid of mostly 80’s military hardware while getting budget for new stuff and a whole lot of free field testing and marketing for export.

    We are not sending gold bars or euro bills, we’re paying local companies to produce ammo or sending surplus hardware “for the value of $$$” that would otherwise sit in a hangar somewhere.

    This is the cheapest war “Europe” has ever fought, can’t say the same about Ukraine or Russia.




  • It was implied in the discussion: “if you can compile it, it will work”.

    There’s plenty of ARM processors before Cortex. There’s SPARC. And there’s a crapton of others with their quirks.

    Just because you can compile a program from source, it doesn’t guarantee it will work. As mentioned: online assembly, memory alignment, but you can add endianness or questionable pointer arithmetic, not to mention dynamic runtime code generation. And I’m sure there’s 5 other reasons that I haven’t personally run into.

    Yeah, in a perfect world everyone would write bug-free, platform-independent code, alas…