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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK should have an “exit tax” like Australia and Canada. The UK is an international outlier in not charging Capital Gains Tax (CGT) on wealthy people who leave the country⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And the US after that facebook guy went to SGP prior to the IPO. It’s a little ew in my (personal) book — a cover charge to leave the bar if you still have money for more drinks, but hey …

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Convoluted Way Intel’s 386 Implemented Its Registers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The fact that x86. Hasn’t changed its foundation much, isn’t that just a combination of hardware making up for original design shortcomings, while economy keeping better solutions at bay? (Not a chip guy, I’m likely wrong.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Convoluted Way Intel’s 386 Implemented Its Registers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Never did SPARC assembly, but ISTR their registers were basically a ring of groups of registers allowing fast context switches as long as the call depth stayed shallow (fsvo shallow). When the ring was exhausted, you had to stash away in memory.