I dunno, pointers were kinda small on 8/16 bit platforms

Smalltalk for example used 1 bit (or 2 bit?) tagged pointers

Any example ?

Plenty of niche ways that are limited enough to not require program wide architecture change

https://muxup.com/2023q4/storing-data-in-pointers#some-real-...

> What’s the best price/performance for a home lab server running Linux with ECC these days? Bonus points if it is rackable.

Old used enterprise server. None of them will be great at power/performance in typical (i.e. mostly idle) home use tho. Intel ones usually far better here

> However, as a provider I can totally see a situation where I (proverbially, I'm not in this business) sue you for disclosing what amounts to a trade secret (depending on what's in the fine print) and compel you to give up all documents so I can go after my loose-lipped client too.

I don't see this holding in court aside from the company needing to remove that info from the site.

You are not beholden to NDA you have not signed, and it woudld be employee that shared it breaking any agreements, not the company that then shared it.

> The destruction of the Twitter branding seems more out of spite than business development goals

Or just incompetence. Plenty of that. Assuming just because he is billionaire that he's competent at everything related to any company and the reason for failure is something else is silly.

He had no idea what the fuck he is doing and he fucked up.

> Or just incompetence.

Oh there is likely plenty of that too. But I think there was at least some malice in being forced to follow through on his overvalued purchase offer, in the treatment of "blue check" verified accounts, in the treatment of laid-off employees and those who remained or tried to stick it out, and in the destruction of the Twitter brand.

> Assuming just because he is billionaire that he's competent at everything related to any company and the reason for failure is something else is silly.

Yes, that part was tongue-in-cheek.

Well, admitting otherwise would be admitting failure of managing that company and we can't have that!

Actually, why there is not? Company should be able to just get cert for wifi.company.com and then be allowed to just call its network wifi.company.com...

> Even in the US the Afroman raids show the police about to rip drives out of the security system .. if there'd been a decoy box | real time cloud backup there'd be more footage of the raid for his songs and court case.

I think bigger problem is people that think they can do that in first place still being employed in police...