Doctor Murder, M.D.☮️🇵🇸

Come find me on that new non-crumbling app!

Probably thinking about sushi

In the 90s, Hitachi came up with a bizarre way to conserve memory bandwidth. Their SuperH architecture, intended to compete with ARM, was a 32-bit architecture that used…16 bit instructions. The benefit was really high code density. If you can fit twice as many instructions into every cache line, the CPU pipeline stalls way, way less. This was *really* important for embedded devices, which were often extremely bandwidth constrained in the era. Sega famously used the processors for the Dreamcast, and ARM actually ended up licensing their patents for Thumb mode! I think perhaps the weirdest thing about SuperH was its concept of “upwards compatibility”. The ISA itself is a microcode-less design, all future instructions were trapped and emulated by older chipsets. It’d be slow…but you could run future code on very old chips! Very neat design, a massive success through the 90s and 2000s, that slowly faded.

@emkenobi It's darkly amusing that nobody misses him outside of the absolute worst people. On the flip side the people who miss ANDOR are the real ones.

11 months without Andor

I’ve helped many library patrons over the years with provincial or federal forms for disability, immigration, tenancy, and other complex things that seem designed to make people fail. It’s so incredibly frustrating and I want to shapeshift from librarian to legal advocate.

If we had a beautiful place like this here I would go for walks in it every day.

August Lanin. "Objects in Outer Space II," 1974.

Artworks based on the novels Neuromancer (William Gibson), Starfish (Peter Watts), and Snow Crash (Neal Stephenson), by Bruce Jensen.

These companies want their artists to have a degree from a 200k prestige art school, years of experience, and an exceptional (relevant) portfolio in order to get an entry level art position- but they don’t even have the decency to keep us on for more than 6 months at a time.

I am proud to be one of the 100 journalists who signed the letter defending the @InternetArchive's essential @WayBackMachine. Corporate news outlets now trying to block archival preservation of the news is a betrayal of the ideals of journalism. x.com/i/trending/204…

ICYMI: "Danne and Blackburn’s futuristic 'worm' NASA logo, their use of Helvetica throughout, and their preference for sleek, spare standardization conveyed 'a feeling of unity, technological precision, thrust and orientation toward the future.'” wp.me/p7gXJr-9Gu

Syd Mead (via @retroscifiart)

I mean …

All nostalgia is poison but the one that is truly seductive and mind obliterating is 1980s nostalgia. The multi-billion dollar corporations have made billions off of emotionally stunted manchildren who are hooked on their overpriced plastic heroin.

"Battlestar Galactica" poster from Japan, 1978.

A welcome ally has joined the fight against the dystopian AI surveillance state: Birds!!!

Bread and circuses. Except without the bread.

A shitty streamer finally getting their comeuppance?!

Hello #PortfolioDay!!!

Cedric Thouvenel.

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