The origin AFAIK stems from the mainframe days. When using BAL (the assembly language for the IBM/360 family and its descendants), xoring was faster than moving 0 to the variable. Many of the early devs who wrote assembly for PCs came from mainframe backgrounds and so the idiom was carried over.
Readit Newsternaryoperator commented on Why xor eax, eax? xania.org/202512/01-xor-e... · Posted by u/hasheddan
If this was true, teachers and trainers would have the easiest job in the world: just insulting their pupils would stop them from failing an exam, race or whatever again.
The comment is clearly sarcasm.
A great tool for digging into obscure jar and class files. I used it many times to track down very obscure bugs in Java based products. Often you will have a vendor saying that your issue is not real or not reproducible on their end. But with this kind of tool you can peek behind the curtains and figure out how to trigger some condition 100% of the time.
It had better be really old Java code. This decompiler supports only through Java 8. We're on Java 24 now.
> drive on THE 101
excuuuuuuse you? It's "drive on 101" in NorCal :P
in fact, use of the article before the highway number is a giveaway that the person is from elsewhere.
ternaryoperator commented on Larry Summers resigns from OpenAI board cnbc.com/2025/11/19/larry... · Posted by u/koolba
MIT and NYT need to get back on it, too. Lots of people still not feeling any consequences, much like Epstein during life. The girls were threatened more than he ever was (and still are.)
It seems like the NYT was cackling in glee just a couple months ago, saying that even Trump had to finally buck the conspiracy theories of his evil, ignorant MAGA followers and admit that there was absolutely nothing to see and nothing interesting about the Epstein case and it's actually silly that you would think there was. Nice that MAGA demands accountability from Trump in a way Democrats don't from their leaders.
It's also telling that the NYT is the only major outlet to consistently be reticent to state unequivocally that Epstein killed himself. Always said "found to have committed suicide." Somebody there with editorial veto control knows that flimsy story isn't going to last forever. Even if he hadn't been made cellmates with an insane strangler murder cop with nothing to lose, hadn't said that the "suicide attempt" was insane murder cop trying to kill him, and was taken off suicide watch one day after that "suicide attempt."
The night Jeffrey Epstein claimed his cellmate tried to kill him, CBS News 2025/09/22
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jeffrey-epstein-claimed-cellmat...
Nicholas Tartaglione
https://www.lohud.com/story/news/crime/2019/09/23/feds-how-n...
[edit: re Tartaglione, who never had the slightest chance of ever getting out of prison. Has anybody checked if the financial situation of his family changed for the better since the incident?]
> It's also telling that the NYT is the only major outlet to consistently be reticent to state unequivocally that Epstein killed himself. Always said "found to have committed suicide."
Nonsense. "...Mr. Epstein, who died by suicide... [0] "...disgraced financier who died by suicide...[1] etc.
[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/us/politics/trump-epstein... [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/us/politics/trump-epstein...
ternaryoperator commented on JVM exceptions are weird: a decompiler perspective purplesyringa.moe/blog/jv... · Posted by u/birdculture
Posted 11 days ago. 65 comments
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45808899
A JVM for Java 21 written in go[0]
[0] jacobin.org
ternaryoperator commented on NJVL: Nim's New Intermediate Representation github.com/nim-lang/nimon... · Posted by u/generichuman
The tree-like syntax interested me but unless this new layer enforces it, there's no guaranteed evaluation order among its backends[1], which IMO kind of defeat it's usability as general purpose IR.
That's an important point you make. A closer-to-SSA IR would have helped in the provided example by forcing the function calls to be completed before their return value being passed to the principal function. I'm surprised Araq dismissed this concern.
If AMD released a desktop class ARM processor at that time, what software would it have run?
Apple had already switched cpus in Macs twice, it's not surprising that they could do it again, but would they have switched from Intel x86 to AMD ARM when they never used any AMD x86? Seems unlikely.
Focusing on a product that would sell on day one rather than one that would need years to build sales makes sense for a company that was struggling for relevance and continued operations.
Windows and Microsoft apps run on ARM on multiple Surface models.
ternaryoperator commented on Criticisms of “The Body Keeps the Score” josepheverettwil.substack... · Posted by u/adityaathalye
We do that incredibly often just to refer to only one part of an incredibly broad concept of "science." Sometimes they get unique terms like "physics" or "chemistry," but not always. This is not a rule that can accurately be applied to all terms matching the pattern "____ science."
Wait…so you’re saying computer science isn’t science? /s