MouldyCat

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Startup formed by former Intel engineers and backed by AMD legendary chip designer wants to become the Arm of RISC-V⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I think they mean that ARM became dominant by widely licencing its RISC architecture to pretty much anyone. This startup wants to make RISC V designs and licence them to various chip manufacturers - so they won’t be in the business of making chips themselves, just the design.

  But as long as they are RISC V chips, then they would run the same software as any other RISC V chips.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Startup formed by former Intel engineers and backed by AMD legendary chip designer wants to become the Arm of RISC-V⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Would that be a risk? Isn’t the whole point of RISC V that its ISA is open and free to use? That’s not the case for ARM or Intel’s x86 architecture.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shein could be a shot in the arm for the London Stock Exchange – but the fashion giant might not like the added scrutiny⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  God the UK is desperate if getting a shitty company like this on the books is something to be celebrated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TFW you think you got away with it for 137 years but then the cops come knockin⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  yes we can make an assumption that that is indeed what they think, but that’s not actually what they said with the sentence “This wouldn’t hold up in modern court let alone Victorian age court”. So perhaps they accidentally used incorrect phrasing, but even so, the logic doesn’t follow - if something doesn’t hold up in modern-day court, that tells us nothing about whether or not it would hold up in Victorian times, when standards of evidence were indeed lower.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Axel Rudakubana: 'Evil' Southport killer jailed for minimum 52 years⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I want to add my tuppence worth as well. Even if one day we have a justice system that can be 100.000% certain of guilt AND 100% certain that there is no chance of rehabilitation, I think we should still not have the death penalty, because I don’t think spending the energy and time killing individuals in cold blood is a healthy way for a society to behave. This Rudakubana guy may be some kind of monster, but that doesn’t mean that acting monstrously towards him is somehow acceptable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Of Mice and Men taken off Wales' GCSE syllabus because of racial slurs - Wales Online⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d say these books are important for anyone studying American literature - and probably essential for anyone studying American literature of the 20th Century.

  They’re not so important for Welsh pupils and don’t need to be included in a general English literature syllabus for 15-year-olds in the UK. The reasoning for choosing not to include these sorts of works in the list of required and optional texts for this specific qualification are pretty convincing IMO and I completely support it.

  No books are being banned from schools or anything like that. The article headline is I suspect just trying to get clicks from the anti-woke crowd.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Of Mice and Men taken off Wales' GCSE syllabus because of racial slurs - Wales Online⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The book hasn’t been banned, it’s just not been selected as a required or optional text in a new English qualification for Welsh schools. Steinbeck is a wonderful author and story-teller, and his stories provide a useful insight into America’s difficult recent past in regards to racial segregation (as well as other issues such as oppression of the poor). America is an important country, and it’s useful to understand why it remains such a damaged society with deep racial divides even today, but it’s not Wales is it.