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New comment by RandomOnyx in "ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026"

RandomOnyx — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 01:21:25 +0000

Reading between the lines, I blame essentially the opposite thing: too much neoliberalism, preventing governments from enacting effective industrial policy (for ideological reasons, not as a choice for a plausible pathway to the desired outcomes). There is some but too little and too indirect. The focus is more on doing as little as possible than on really doing things, on giving permission and as-small-as-possible incentives for things to be done rather than causing them to be done (let alone straight up doing them - neolibs recoil in horror).

That's how I see it anyway, almost everyone else wants to double down on neoliberalism ie the negation of industrial policy. Except perhaps Frank Heemskerk from the article, who mentions wanting governments to create demand for made-in-europe chips so that fabs get built to supply that demand.

New comment by RandomOnyx in "How did AMD Ryzen get 50% faster in two years?"

RandomOnyx — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 10:48:53 +0000

We had Ice Lake and Rocket Lake too, they seem to have disappeared from the collective memory

New comment by RandomOnyx in "AMD's random number generator can't generate a 0?"

RandomOnyx — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 11:01:30 +0000

How about* rdrand32()%65536? Taking the remainder by 65535 doesn't take the lowest 16 bits after all

*: missed a word the first time around

New comment by RandomOnyx in "AMD's random number generator can't generate a 0?"

RandomOnyx — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 10:59:21 +0000

Does rdrand32 and then taking the lowest 16 bits of its result yield any zeroes?

Basically I'm wondering if it's a bug in the version of the instruction that writes to a 16-bit reg, or a bug in the underlying RNG

New comment by RandomOnyx in "Show HN: A browser IDE for m68000, Z80 assembly (and more), with graphics"

RandomOnyx — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 03:47:06 +0000

(in case it matters, I tried z80)

I see we have #include as usual, but how do I add files? Wasn't clear to me.

Also I would like to download the assembled & linked binary. That kind of usage may not be what you're going for, but then I can run it on an active device too, not just in the emulator.