• AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space
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    14 days ago

    There was a joke that the successor to the RU-486 contraceptive pill was the RU-Pentium, and it worked by preventing the embryo from dividing correctly

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    14 days ago

    Huh, I practically only know Intel as having defects and vulnerabilities, but I didn’t know this had such a long history…

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    14 days ago

    This still stresses me out because my software is mission critical, safety related, and blindly assumes that the calculations will be correct.