Some years ago, I needed to get an visa for urgent travel to China, a process that required me to fly down to SF and stand in a very long line at the Chinese consulate. When I finally handed the woman there my forms, she promptly stamped them and said "you need to take these to Window 2", pointing around the corner. So I walked around the corner...

...where *the same woman* swiveled her chair around and proceeded to check the stamp that she had just applied.

I would have been annoyed if I wasn't in so much awe at discovering the purest form of bureaucracy.

nice unpatchable A12/A13 secure boot bypass you got there ​

https://ps.tc/pages/blog-usbliter8.html

for anyone else who had to search it up:
A12 is iPhone XS, XR, iPad mini 5th gen, air 3rd gen, and base 8th gen
A13 is iPhone 11 series, SE 2nd gen, and iPad 9th gen

Under no circumstances, do not touch the metal part of the soldering iron to avoid burns.

… so, I should touch it?

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Every sign has a story

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The POWER9 processor core supports a 64-bit effective address (EA), 68-bit virtual address (VA), and a 56-bit host real (physical) address (RA)

68-bit addresses!?

In HPT mode, the effective address space is 64 bits (0:63), the virtual address space is implemented as 68 bits (10:77) of the 78-bit architected maximum virtual address space, and the real address space is 51 bits (13:63).

I don’t really understand what this means.

One 18 inch pizza has 'more pizza' than 2 x 12 inch pizzas!

(via @fermatslibrary)