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Dec 31, 2020 at 19:30
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TIL that AMD64 instructions generally don't support immediates greater than 32-bit: https://c9x.me/notes/2015-09-19.html If you really need a large immediate value, you need to use MOV into a register first.
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I'm pretty impressed with Cursor: I've successfully asked it to perform codebase transforms in English, and it's worked! E.g. "Replace all calls foo(..., true) with foo_immediate(...) define a foo_immediate function". I'm still reading the diff and checking tests -- it's still AI after all.
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Google prefers to index newer pages: https://stop.zona-m.net/2018/01/indeed-it-seems-that-google-is-forgetting-the-old-web/ Perhaps people want newer results more often? The article suggests there's probably a limit how much can be indexed for immediate retrieval.
Indeed, it seems that Google IS forgetting the old Web
XML pioneer and early blogger Tim Bray says that Google maybe suffers of deliberate memory loss. I may have found more evidence that this is the case.