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curling_grad··on Hexwords: Hex colors that are similar to words
The hacker news orange is #ff6600. Pretty close.
curling_grad··on What’s new in Safari and WebKit
Not sure about others, but as far as I know high resolution timers were removed to (partly) mitigate side channel attacks.

https://webkit.org/blog/8048/what-spectre-and-meltdown-mean-...

curling_grad··on Plundervolt (2019)
The title should be something like "Plundervolt (2019)".
curling_grad··on Webb Telescope Image Sharpness Check
This reminds me of this article: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01431-y
curling_grad··on Removing characters from strings faster with AVX-512
Maybe because of IO costs?
curling_grad··on The x86 architecture is the weirdo, part 2
By pc you mean "program counter"?
curling_grad··on New Chinese GPU Maker Moore Threads Unveils the MTT S60 GPU
Is "Moore" of the company's name is the "Moore" of Moore's law?

If so, I wonder why one would name his/her company after their competitor's founder.

curling_grad··on GPT-3 can run code
Their paper has results from Codex.

(see p. 21) https://arxiv.org/pdf/2203.07814v1.pdf

curling_grad··on Writing a simple operating system from scratch (2010) [pdf]
I also found "The little book about OS development" useful.

https://littleosbook.github.io/

curling_grad··on Apple's privacy push cost Meta $10B
This. I saw many non-tech savvy people just blindly hitting OKs to whatever dialogs shown on their phones.
curling_grad··on Show HN: I bought and tested the filtration of every mask on Amazon
The website says:

> Subjective Scoring: Construction > Ear loop strength, build quality, and comfort. This test is somewhat subjective, which is why we don’t include in pass/fail analysis.

> Smell is not considered as part of pass/fail analysis.

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