Things Heard: e27v4
Thursday, July 17th, 2008 at
9:08 am
- Further demonstrations of those things which elected government can’t do.
- Evolution … a conversation.
- St. Basil on free will.
- Sanity tries to surface in Saudi Arabia … but fails?
- Failing miserably but still garnering full support.
- Intel and the mythical HCF instruction.There’s an old joke there. HCF apocrophally was an machine instruction hidden deep in a IBM manual for one of their early mainframes. A programmer was wondering what it did, so he wrote a short program which executed it. And the machine locked up. Hard. He couldn’t bootstrap or get anything to work. Finally he opened the case, and found the processing core smoking. HCF becamde clear. It stood for: Halt and Catch Fire. Heh.
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