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alignment matters because outside of x86:
- misaligned memory access are slower (sometimes only 2-3x, sometimes requiring taking a trap into the kernel which emulates the read)
- may not be atomic where aligned access would be
- may not be available as atomic accesses at all
nvm there are x86 instructions that require strict alignment (simd instructions)
big endian has issues now because everything is written exclusively for little endian systems
x86’s memory ordering is total store order, meaning that writes have identical order between cores and hardware threads. that does mean that a lot of instructions are already atomic, but at the same time the relative order of stores between threads is unspecified? just that they are consistent. Other ISAs have way weaker requirements (requiring explicit barriers to make sure that reads and writes can’t cross the instruction). in a way x86 has a read fence before stores and a read-write fence after stores
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today’s episode in “x86 was a mistake”: “alignment doesn’t matter”
add that to the list of things with “the x86 isn’t big endian sometimes” and “x86 has a stricter memory ordering than swiss train timetables”
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@schratze idk there is just a lot to factors to this so it’s hard to theorize i guess
the austro-prussian and franco-prussian wars would have not happened, although maybe austria-hungary would have attacked germany anyways because their existence would likely be a threat to the austrian crown
WW1, if it happened, would probably not be a world war. If germany included austria then perhaps nothing would have happened after the assassination of archduke ferdinand, if it didn’t maybe some local scale conflicts. germany might have taken the side of the entente if it did escalate to that extent. I think prussia caused/intensified a lot of the tensions inside of europe by provoking other european countries into attacking them and losing in their conquest for unification
the 20s and 30s in germany might have been prosperous, without hyperinflation or massive war debts. Monarchist and fascist forces would have also not been empowered by the dolchstoßlegende, although fascism would still be a massive threat. assuming germany’s politics moved past nationalism, neither fascist purges nor ww2 would have been nearly as murderous as they have been in reality
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@ielenia @LunaDragofelis international commerce of larger sums is my guess
when the euro was introduced, there was no S€PA for inexpensive international bank transfers in the EU, no unified european card standard aside from Credit Cards (which still are comparatively difficult to get). so presumably it was for going to a car dealership abroad and paid 10,000€ in cash. nowadays you can’t even use cheques for that
Nowadays i would rather not use any bill larger than 20€. 100€+ are heavily counterfeited and places that don’t have a UV light for verification in many cases simply do not accept them
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oh right imagemagick has a bug with gif to apng conversion which they act like it’s a feature
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@EeveeEuphoria you should start lobbying the EU i think.
they act like the coconut is the boob of the palm animal
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i have seen "veggie chips" befora and now i am deeply confused about what potato chips are made from
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……why does imagemagick eat the return code if ffmpeg is not found but required
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