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3cats-in-a-coat
9 months ago
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Intel x86 documentation has more pages than the 65...
What you describe is basically how DNA works. Most of it is inactive junk. Parts of which, however, gets activated when... who knows what happens.
Basically we got coded by millions of interns.
gary_0
9 months ago
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And some of the code is never called, but removing it causes weird crashes because the cell.exe compiler is finicky. And some of the code shouldn't be there, but it was left behind by a virus infection that wasn't completely cleared out.
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Basically we got coded by millions of interns.