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AFAIK, it's mostly for industries (cars ... ) not directly for consumer products (ie consumer PC components)
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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Money won't help Intel anymore than it helped Baldwin Locomotive.
The ship has sailed.
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As an American tax payer, you are welcome. The industry don't need money - you can bet it's pork and directed in certain ways to certain individuals. What the industry needs is regulatory reform. Go research Global Foundries Inc that is starting one of a few fabrication facilities. Upstate New York. They've been held up for quite some time by people brought in to protest the environmental impact. Meanwhile, lot's of people would like to start working there.
Same thing needs to happen for pharmaceuticals, but that's a rabbit trail.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Maybe we're at a point where most PCs sold are just too damn good (performance and quality) and don't need upgrading that often (for 99% of the people) ?
(side note) I read something about the guitar maker Gibson going bankrupt because they just made good guitars that lasted too long and people just stopped buying new ones.
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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That's an interesting (and plausible) theory.
I built a desktop with AMD Ryzen 5 & 16GB RAM in 2019 and it is still blazing away.
it could also be that many processes take advantage of GPUs too so it takes less CPU processing power thus machines last a bit longer.
And then also, even as terrible as software is, there's not much more to do to make the software eat resources that hasn't already been done. Unless you are cryptomining on your desktop or something. 
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That's not the only reason Gibson had problems. I think the main reason is nearly all of their instruments are just too expensive compared to their competition. That's what happens when you use almost entirely manual processes with American workers. Their competition uses lots of automation in Asian factories so their costs are much lower. They can get away with that because their quality is not far behind Gibson's, if at all.
As an example, my first major purchase when I got out of Engineering school was a custom made (in the USA) bass that was really, really nice. It was my primary instrument for almost thirty years. Then I decided it was just too heavy and I ended buying four other basses that are much lighter and were made in Asia and Mexico. The total cost of the four newer ones is less than the custom one's price was forty years ago. The new ones don't sound as good as the old one but they're good enough and they are much, much lighter. That makes a really big difference after four hours of playing.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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I'm curious if the only people who notice the difference are bassists.
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Does this mean that PC prices will drop, either for the back to school season or for the Christmas season????
That would be welcome for all those parents whose children need a new Windows 11 computer for school-ordered website access to do their homework. (Locally, I heard that one of the local high schools requires access to a website that has downloads that only work right on Windows 11 machines. Might just be standard parent griping, but, knowing this local school district, may be tied to a cost-cutting move: something like - yes, there is a Win10 version but the school district would have to pay extra to access it)
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Lord, grant me the serenity to accept that there are some things I just can’t keep up with, the determination to keep up with the things I must keep up with, and the wisdom to find a good RSS feed from someone who keeps up with what I’d like to, but just don’t have the damn bandwidth to handle right now.
© 2009, Rex Hammock
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Currently, ultrasound imaging requires bulky and specialized equipment available only in hospitals and doctor's offices. But a new design by MIT engineers might make the technology as wearable and accessible as buying Band-Aids at the pharmacy. I'm stuck on scanning, because the scanners stuck on me
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I'm holding out until they make them scratch and sniff.
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So you'll get a notification that your bladder is full?
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Don't we already get one?
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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C'mon, that way is not nearly high tech enough (nor could anyone sell that information).
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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I am not so sure about the selling of that info. Zuckerburg is probably working on a way to do it.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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 Probably.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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You have a 50/50 shot at accessing a new experiment from the Visual Studio dev team that integrates tutorials with the IDE for an experience that combines guidance with live code. The tutorials are coming from inside the IDE
sorry, deja vu there
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You can do your part, kill fix bugs everywhere you see them... Do you want to see more?
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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It was difficult for people to guess whether philosophical responses came from the philosopher Daniel Dennett or the language generator GPT-3. It just sat around doing nothing?
I know, I know - thinking "big thoughts"
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I note that the AI was "trained on millions of words of Dennett’s about a variety of philosophical topics, including consciousness and artificial intelligence."
IOW, garbage in, garbage out.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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But the AI managed to create long non-intellegible sentences which are not formally wrong, cause the mind to bend and finally give up trying to understand them...
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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That's exactly my point.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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You know - a famous philosopher - that’s like a funny mortician, or an important poet.
TTFN - Kent
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Human beings are inherently social creatures, having existed in close-knit hunter-gatherer groups for most of our 200,000-year history. If only there were some sort of place people could gather during working hours
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