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> There's a lot of examples of that, like it still being called Unleaded Gas despite it having been so by default for how many decades?

Depending on where you live, about 0.35 decades?

> On 30 August 2021 the United Nations Environment Programme announced that leaded gasoline had been eliminated. The final stocks of the product were used up in Algeria, which had continued to produce leaded gasoline until July 2021.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraethyllead#Modern_findings


That's interesting, but obviously they meant 'in places where it has been banned a long time', there being countries where that's not the case doesn't stop it being an example of this, that terminology/marketing sticks around outliving a point it might've been making.

The EU (incl. UK at the time) banned it 2.4 decades ago.


> On 30 August 2021 the United Nations Environment Programme announced that leaded gasoline had been eliminated.

Basic availability of leaded is unrelated to how long unleaded has been the default.


Some more information about the kind of challenges to expect: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/ann...


I guess it depends on whether the game cartridges only use it for storing savegames, or as actual additional RAM.


Yes. It'd be a problem for running code directly from it - it'd be better to cache it to DRAM so that all reads would come from DRAM and only writes would make it to FE-RAM.

IIRC, it was a common trick with 286 and 386 PCs, because BIOS ROMs were 8-bit wide and shadowing the BIOS in RAM made it much faster.


> In Rust, Cargo makes this super easy: “x.y.z” means “>= x.y.z, < (x+1).0.0”.

With the added special case of `0.x.y` meaning `>= 0.x.y, < 0.(x+1).0`, going beyond what semver specifies.


In Germany the minimum time of notice for being fired scales up with your seniority (number of years employed in the company). However, many work contracts add a stipulation that the minimum time of notice from the law be applied to both parties equally, so quitting will also need an advance notice of the same length.


rename it to openSUS and replace the chameleon with an amogus, problem solved


Blackjack, hookers, and reified generics!


Huh, I was pretty sure that you need an extra chip in-between. Otherwise, the 4 CPU lanes will just drop to 4.0 level.


Yes you do.


You'd need a bunch of those chips to make good use of a bunch of 6.0 lanes on the CPU, and at that point you're paying so much for the converters that I'm skeptical it would almost ever be worth it.

I expect consumer machines to keep doing some conversion and expansion in the chipset, but nowhere else. I expect servers to directly attach almost everything and drop down to smaller lane counts for large numbers of devices.

It's worth noting that when Kioxia first put out PCIe 5.0 EDSFF drives, they were marketing them as being optimized for 2 lanes at the higher speed.


This is the main reason why I just use the US ANSI layout in germany, together with KbdKaz on Windows for umlauts and a lot of other extra characters and accennts: https://www.omega-com.pl/kbdkaz.htm


For a while the pile of crap that is Windows 10 got very drunk about keyboard layouts (maybe in combination with connecting to a remote desktop to a computer with a different set of layouts). Being in Switzerland with Swiss German, French and Italian layouts, and having just German and English on the client computer, it would lie to me and claim the layout is English when it's German, etc, etc, and the control panel would even lose layouts...

Fun fact: amayon.de redirects to amazon.de


A cross-platform alternative is to use the EurKey layout (https://eurkey.steffen.bruentjen.eu/layout.html), allowing you to have the US keyboard layout by default, while using modifier keys for various diacritics common in European languages with Latin script.


I love how the "Show code" buttons in 98.css and XP.css are just plain labels, with no indication that they are clickable until you hover over them, as opposed to the easily visible buttons the CSS actually provides x)

Interestingly, the 7.css fixes this by showing them as expander links instead.


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