alt.hn

1/23/2026 at 9:06:26 AM

Why are there so many CPU bugs nowadays

 https://mas.to/@gabrielesvelto/115939583202357863

by riffraff

1/23/2026 at 9:52:14 AM

Mastodon really needs a better way to share/publish long form essays (or anything not tweet sized)

by digitalPhonix

1/23/2026 at 10:10:34 AM

I wish humanity would get over this hyper fixation on short form everything, but I fear that ship has sailed.

by pixelpoet

1/23/2026 at 12:05:05 PM

You had me at hyper but lost me at fixation

by keysersoze33

1/23/2026 at 3:34:02 PM

You had—wat tldr

by DemocracyFTW2

1/23/2026 at 11:43:50 AM

It has, the post length limit is an artificial limit imposed by specific instance's configuration and can just be lifted.

by seba_dos1

1/23/2026 at 11:32:23 AM

It should be rather simple to add an (optional?) article-view which roll's up a chain of comments from the same author, and presents it as a flat collected text. Each comment would a single paragraph, showing if there are comments from others, to this specific paragraph, which could be shown as an overlay, inline or on the side. No functionality would be lost, but it would improve readability significant. I don't understand why twitter and similar services, never made an attempt to improve their chaotic system. I mean on Twitter there are even bots doing this on external websites.

by PurpleRamen

1/23/2026 at 12:29:47 PM

Once it started becoming common to start attaching screenshots of text to Tweets (many years ago now), I wondered why they didn't think to allow add "text attachments" similar to how images and videos are attachments. You put a description of the post within the normal text limitations, and tap a thumbnail to load a long (maybe even markdown-formatted) text and read it. It keeps the feeds short both visually and in bytes.

by kalleboo

1/23/2026 at 10:02:00 AM

What's wrong with making a Substack?

by quotemstr

1/23/2026 at 10:47:37 AM

It's the same as long Twitter posts, strung together by endless tweets a few years ago. People have a platform, they use that. If you don't make it a habit to post long articles, why bother with a new platform when the one you have will suffice?

Making a substack, or an account on Medium is "yet another thing" and many simply cannot be bothered and I don't blame them.

by mrweasel

1/23/2026 at 7:56:25 PM

or at least better compatibility with reader view... it would just make sense. i was about to suggest it when it worked with brave's one (xtwitter articles and bluesky threads didn't), but then it didn't work in safari

by yaemiko

1/23/2026 at 9:44:35 AM

Basically because a modern CPU is a distributed system, which is hard to get right.

by amelius

1/23/2026 at 10:38:07 AM

The same problems as current software.

1. Its horribly complex

2. People are happy to buy buggy products.

by graemep

1/23/2026 at 2:25:56 PM

> People are happy to buy buggy products.

Western society falls apart when we compromise on quality. This kind of behavior is much more common in 3rd world countries. One of the key differentiators in western society is how much we value trust, and “doing the bare minimum to get it done” is low trust.

There’s more to it than that ofc, but blaming “the people” is wrong and will never fix things. Blame the people in power, the people making things, etc. The consumers don’t stand a chance.

by sjajshha

1/23/2026 at 3:30:23 PM

> This kind of behavior is much more common in 3rd world countries. One of the key differentiators in western society is how much we value trust, and “doing the bare minimum to get it done” is low trust.

Having lived in both a developed western country and a third world one I think this is simplistic.

As far as quality goes there were (there are fewer now) there are lots of Sri Lankan manufacturers that used to produce high quality (at least in terms of reliability and durability), and some Indian ones that were popular there too.

As far as trust in general what you trust is different. In Britain I have more trust in being able to enforce a written contract through the courts because they are faster and more accessible (e.g. an easy not navigate small claims court, far less time to get to a judgement in most courts) but I would generally be more willing to trust an individual to keep their word in Sri Lanka (with caveats about how and in what circumstances) because reputations matter more.

by graemep

1/26/2026 at 9:29:16 AM

> This kind of behavior is much more common in 3rd world countries.

... where Microsoft and Google have their headquarters. /s

by hulitu

1/23/2026 at 11:06:08 AM

"People are abused into buying things they have no knowledge about, without consequences"

by dgan

1/23/2026 at 11:10:30 AM

Abused is too strong. I would say complexity means people do not understand the consequences.

by graemep

1/23/2026 at 2:15:47 PM

Marketing Dept plus upper management.

A release date is set by them, developers need to cut corners to make that date. These days it is far worse then it was 40 years ago due to marketing.

by jmclnx

1/24/2026 at 6:42:38 AM

> If a CPU is already operating near the edge, aging might cut this slack all the way down to zero, causing the core to fail consistently.

This to me is really interesting. I've always assumed (incorrectly) that CPUs themselves don't age. It's the stuff around it (capacitors etc) that eventually cause a failure that might cascade to the CPU, but the CPU itself couldn't degrade.

by OptionOfT

1/23/2026 at 11:05:01 AM

"... how they manifest and what can and can't be done about them. 1/31"

1/31. Sure buddy closes the tab

by dgan