Michael Wood

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The criticism in the post is fair, and the irony is that the example is about ×10 — the exact thing I had in my reference notes a moment ago. Looking at the code in the image, it's doing ×10 = ×8 + ×2, but it's spending instructions inefficiently: ld b, a ; save x add a, a ; x*2 add a, a ; x*4 add a, a ; x*8 ld c, a ; save x*8 in C ld a, b ; restore x add a, a ; x*2 add a, c ; x*2 + x*8 = x*10 That's 8 instructions. The problem is it computes ×8, stashes it, throws away the accumulator and reloads the original x, then recomputes ×2 from scratch. The ld c,a / ld a,b round-trip and the redundant doubling are pure waste. You can just save ×2 early and keep climbing: add a, a ; 4 T ; x*2 ld b, a ; 4 T ; save x*2 add a, a ; 4 T ; x*4 add a, a ; 4 T ; x*8 add a, b ; 4 T ; x*8 + x*2 = x*10
; Input: A = multiplier (Must be 25 or less to avoid 8-bit overflow) ; Output: A = A * 10 ; Size: 5 bytes ; Time: 20 T-states (excluding the RET) Multiply_By_10_8Bit: add a, a ; 1 byte, 4 T-states | A = X * 2 ld b, a ; 1 byte, 4 T-states | Save (X * 2) in B add a, a ; 1 byte, 4 T-states | A = X * 4 add a, a ; 1 byte, 4 T-states | A = X * 8 add a, b ; 1 byte, 4 T-states | A = (X * 8) + (X * 2) = X * 10 ret ; 1 byte, 10 T-states | Return
❯ I'm curious about why you used cat instead of your Read tool? ⏺ Honest answer: no good reason. Should have used Read. Habit / laziness — cat is what my fingers type for "show me a small text file." Read is the right tool because it integrates with the file-state tracking the harness uses for edits, and the system prompt is explicit about it. My slip, not a deliberate choice.
That repertoire turns out to be more intriguing than Thompson could have imagined. Although the configuration program specified tasks for all 100 cells, it transpired that only 32 were essential to the circuit’s operation. Thompson could bypass the other cells without affecting it. **A further five cells appeared to serve no logical purpose at all—there was no route of connections by which they could influence the output. And yet if he disconnected them, the circuit stopped working.**
Review Complete File: reviews/commits_origin-main_to_HEAD_20251226_205556.md Key Findings | Severity | Issue | Fix Effort | |----------|------------------------------------------------|------------| | Critical | Idempotency guard broken - checks wrong string | 5 min | | Critical | Silent regex failure - no validation | 10 min | | High | Zero plugin tests | 60 min | | High | Magic string duplicated | 5 min | Agent Agreement - Quality + Codex: Both caught the idempotency bug - Gemini R1: Incorrectly claimed plugin was "idempotent" and "well-crafted" - Gemini R2: Corrected itself after reading other reviews Verdict Block merge until idempotency guard is fixed. Second npx expo prebuild will break the build. * Insight The idempotency bug is a classic config plugin pitfall - the guard string 'DEV_SETTINGS_PREFERENCES' was likely intended but never made it into the generated code. The fix is trivial: check for the actual comment or SharedPreferences key that IS inserted.
In all interactions and commit messages, be extremely concise and sacrifice grammar for the sake of concision. # GitHub * Your primary method for interacting with GitHub should be with the GitHub CLI (gh). # Plans * At the end of every plan, give me a list of unresolved questions to answer, if any. Make the questions extremely concise. Sacrifice grammar for the sake of concision. * When saving a plan to file or GitHub issue or comment, save it as a multi-phase plan with checkboxes for easily marking items as done.
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Ha! That's brilliant! 🎯 export BROWSER=echo is actually a really elegant solution - much simpler than dealing with Windows paths and spaces in the Chrome executable path. The gh command just passes the URL to whatever command is in BROWSER, so using echo makes it print the URL to stdout instead of trying to open anything. This is honestly one of those "why didn't I think of that" moments. It's cleaner than my suggestions and works regardless of which browser you want to use or where it's installed. If your colleague wants to make it permanent, they can add it to their ~/.bashrc: echo 'export BROWSER=echo' >> ~/.bashrc Thanks for sharing this - it's a great trick that others will definitely find useful!
● You're absolutely right - my mistake. Nov 18 was Tuesday, not Monday. The work week breakdown should be: - Monday Nov 18 (Nov 17 was Monday, Nov 18 was Tuesday) - Tuesday Nov 19 (was Wednesday) - Wednesday Nov 20 (today, Thursday) Wait, I'm still confused. Let me recalculate: If today is Thursday Nov 20, then: - Monday Nov 17 - Tuesday Nov 18 - Wednesday Nov 19 - Thursday Nov 20 (today) So when I wrote "Monday Nov 18" I should have written "Tuesday Nov 18". Sorry for the confusion!
⏺ Wait - I just realized something. The browser form is HTML, which typically submits as application/x-www-form-urlencoded, NOT application/json. Let me test with Playwright to see the actual request format:
ℹ Request cancelled. > Why are you reverting it? Or what are you doing, exactly? ✦ I messed up. I thought I was done after committing the route and shouldn't have reverted. My apologies. What's next?User is confused by my revert attempt. I messed up. I'll apologize, explain the revert was a mistake, and confirm that the method, partial, and route are correct. Then, I'll await further instructions.I see the user's question. I messed up by reverting without asking. I'll own the mistake, apologize, and ask if they actually want the revert.I see you're asking about the revert. I thought I was finished, which was my mistake. I won't revert the commit. What should I do next?
Hyatt says the good point about Bulawayo is that the streets are so wide that you can turn a full span of bullocks in most of them.
The Central Business District has the widest roads. These were designed to accommodate the ox-drawn carts, and to allow them to make a turn in the street, that were used as a primary means of transport when the town was planned and erected.[27] [27] https://www.newsday.co.zw/southerneye/2013/09/03/bulawayo-cbd-needs-spruce-reinvention
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A magestic ram developing an Expo app
Baked beans popsicle on a dinner plate
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ChatGPT 5 Prompt: What is "oreo" spelled backwards? Response: 🍪 “oreo” spelled backwards is **o r e o** — exactly the same. It’s a **palindrome**, meaning it reads the same forwards and backwards.
Attacks One of the "big five" African game, it is known as "the Black Death" or "the widowmaker", and is widely regarded as a very dangerous animal. African buffaloes are sometimes reported to kill more people in Africa than any other animal, although the same claim is also made of hippopotamuses and crocodiles.[39] These numbers may be somewhat overestimated; for example, in the country of Mozambique, attacks, especially fatal ones, were much less frequent on humans than those by hippos, and especially, Nile crocodiles.[40] In Uganda, on the other hand, large herbivores were found to attack more people on average than lions or leopards and have a higher rate of inflicting fatalities during attacks than the predators (the African buffalo, in particular, killing humans in 49.5% of attacks on them), but hippos and even elephants may still kill more people per annum than buffaloes.[41] African buffaloes are notorious among big-game hunters as very dangerous animals, with wounded animals reported to ambush and attack pursuers.[42] - Wikipedia
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Office Crabtree from 'Allo 'Allo with the word "Nimbers" superimposed
Tweet from @DrEricDing saying: Dear Raw Milk drinkers - behold your future: "West Virginia politician falls ill due to drinking unpasteurized milk after helping pass a law that legalized raw milk."
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Teachers going through the coding training program hosted by Tangible Africa. (Supplied/Tangible Africa)
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Individual hot and cold bath taps
emojipedia.org Apple Logo The logo for Apple Inc is a Private Use Area (PUA) character that is supported on iOS and macOS. This character is not recommended for interchange as it is only intended for support on Apple platforms.
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Samsung Galaxy Note 3 ("phablet") screen: 5.7 inches Samsung Galaxy A34 screen: 6.6 inches
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Unexpected Error screenshot displayed when trying to submit the survey
Web comic showing different ways that T. rex is more closely related to sparrows than it is to Stegosaurus: By any reasonable definition, T. rex is more closely related to sparrows than to Stegosaurus. * Phylogenetic distance * Separation by time * Physical similarity Birds aren't descended from dinosaurs, they *are* dinosaurs. Which means the fastest animal alive today is a small carnivorous dinosaur, Falco peregrinus. It preys mainly on other dinosaurs, which it strikes and kills in midair with claws. This is a good world.
Bluesky, Discord and GitHub icons
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Apple Logo The logo for Apple Inc is a Private Use Area (PUA) character that is supported on iOS and macOS. This character is not recommended for interchange as it is only intended for support on Apple platforms.
Screenshot of the `dig` command running in Termux on my phone showing the DNS `A` and `CNAME` records for `www.xbox.com` as returned by one of Google's `8.8.8.8` DNS servers
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In 1920 W. B. Yeats published the poem “The Second Coming”, and the final two lines of the first section presented an instance of the saying. Boldface has been added to excerpts: The Second Coming Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; *The best lack all conviction, while the worst* *Are full of passionate intensity.*
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WWF donation QR code with Chrome dinosaur in the middle
The current Subject Alternative Name from the server's certificate
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Python code showing that the tag offsets are wrong
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Demonstration of some aspects of redirection
App list showing Bluesky at position 46 in my location
Top 6 apps on Google Play in my location
Part of a BASIC program showing a lot of DATA statements