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Many Supermicro server motherboards I've seen place both the BIOS flash chip and the BMC firmware flash chip in a SOIC socket, so that the flash chip can absolutely be removed without desoldering.

Many SSDs transform all-zero sector writes into a simple TRIM/DISCARD to reduce flash wear, so overwriting with pseudorandom data from /dev/urandom is likely more secure.

Base-4 (in the form of PAM-4) is already used for high speed data transmission. But IMO given how "analog" digital signals become at high speed, using anything but binary for compute logic seems like a fruitless battle.

https://blog.samtec.com/post/understanding-nrz-and-pam4-sign...

Don't forget the context string so you can "unwind the stack" from the error message:

  return nil, fmt.Errorf("expressing gratitude: %w", err)

If cost basis was reported to the IRS by your brokerage, you can typically just report the summary total, since the IRS already knows about the individual trades.

An abomination I made that I've been wanting to show the world for a while. Works well enough to fetch https://www.google.com/robots.txt!