tmandry

In general, no, because branch predictors often ignore or override hints like this. It's hard to say without knowing this architecture specifically, of course.

Keep in mind that it's possible for a branch predictor to predict with "high confidence" a branch it's never seen before, because many branches may overlap into the same memory region of the predictor. The article touches on this.

A bug in their software would be forgivable. This article pointed out both an extremely poor design decision (lots of unnecessary code in the kernel) as well as a serious organizational problem (not doing vulnerability management). These are especially bad considering that they supposed to be a security company.

In both cases, one bad example means it's likely there are many more still undiscovered.

I hope so too!

Maybe I'm just unfamiliar with some of the Postgres syntax.. but shouldn't there be a GROUP BY in the first query?

> That's because much of the tech press prefers sensationalism to get clicks over accurate reporting to inform readers.

s/tech press/press/

Last time I tried VMWare Fusion (<1yr ago) I was pretty disappointed with the trackpad support (I could find absolutely no way to get horizontal scrolling, for example, and vertical scrolling was extremely jarring). Maybe it doesn't bother you, but it drove me nuts.

Can you link to any of this?

At first I thought this was just an awful idea, but after hearing what you're using it for I want to use it myself :P

Did you look into the possibility of "adapting" something like d3 to draw on the terminal? Or does it just lack the abstractions necessary to do that cleanly?