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  • It moves the value of register (a CPU memory cell) rbx to register rax. It’s not that important though.

    Basically the comic shows that the CPU is happily chugging along, executing instructions when suddenly the keyboard sends an interrupt telling the CPU it must stop all work and listen to whatever it has to say.

    That was how keyboards worked before USB (back when they used PS/2 or DIN connectors). With USB it’s the other way around: the device gets polled X times per second to check if it has any data to send.





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    1 month ago

    So is comparing a Microsoft bug to the highlight of the Apollo project and conveniently ignoring all the setbacks that both led up to and followed it.

    I don’t mind bashing Microsoft where warranted, but this just feels like cherry picking from a long list of technical and procedural failures.






  • It does depend a bit. The tax brackets are nonsense of course, but there are countries with allowance systems that don’t fully decrease to zero as your income rises and at some point end in a hard cap. In those cases a raise might end up costing you due to losing the last part of an allowance.

    But that never withheld me from accepting a raise, you’re going to have to push pass that threshold at some point anyway.