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Don't all computers rely on only a handful of chemicals?
Take away the box, the stuff that holds it all together, the buses, solder, wires, PCBs, etc. (which the "chemical computer" people don't include in their count), and there ain't a fat lot of variety of substances left.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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"Quote: It's chemistry, brother, chemistry! There's no help for it, your reverence, you must make way for chemistry. Everything is chemicals after all (or so say all the chemists - physicists tend to disagree)
And yeah, of course there's an xkcd for that[^].
TTFN - Kent
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Hey, there's no point in quoting Russians when discussing scientific advancements -- they claim they invented everything (as even Star Trek noted).
There's equally no point in quoting Americans, either (as they're even worse).
So Scots, Italians, Englishmen, Poles, and Germans only, please. In that order (the Scottish guy couldn't see all the others, way over there).
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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WebAssembly not that popular: Only 1,639 sites of the Top 1 Million use WebAssembly. The other half are demos used in training articles
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Who'd'a'thunk'it?
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Yeah, it's not like we had a great example or anything... *cough*Flash*cough*
People never seem to learn, do they?
TTFN - Kent
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Taking "good" as the antonym of "malicious", I can't think of a good use for webassembly.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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As we look toward a new decade, Mike Loukides considers what the future holds, how we’re going to get there, and what it means for the way the industry is structured. Plumbing the depths of wisdom
(Well, I thought it made sense after reading the article, but then I drink at work.)
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It's a year evenly divisible by 5, so "rethinking programming" it is!
Next year: why <new programming language> will fix all our problems.
In 2022: I have this new way of programming, which is just like using LEGOs....
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Joe Woodbury wrote: It's a year evenly divisible by 5, so "rethinking programming" it is! Damn!
So I'll have to wait twelve months for the Linux desktop!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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From the article:
We need to rethink the role of the programmer
Look for the industry to become more stratified and specialized.
Uh, that has been happening every year, month, week since the Web appeared.
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This isn’t your typical Threadripper, and it’s really designed for high-end desktop computing and creative tasks. This might rip a few threads
"AMD is including 64 cores, 128 threads, a 2.9GHz base clock with boosts up to 4.3GHz, and 288MB total cache."
Thinking back to my first 1MHz 6502 and whatever that 8088 clock speed was...
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it must really rip off....
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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I can't help but wonder how many apps/drivers can handle 128 threads, and how frequently they crash.
The T'rippy AMD guys must be T'rippin'!
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I am not sure article headline writer understood their pricing decision, took me a few minutes to realise.
For others, what is the model number?
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maze3 wrote:
For others, what is the model number? Not 4000! I overlooked it when reading the first time
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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And it comes with a spatula, bread, butter and cheese. Hmm, grilled cheese.
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The few patches we saw last month tore a big hole in many admins’ holiday plans. But the new icons are nice
/shrug. I don't know how I manage to avoid all these issues.
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As usual, the best option is still to switch wupdate off.
It avoid tons of problems.
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I don't know how I manage to avoid all these issues.
net stop wuauserv
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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But they did it all with Teamwork!
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I miss windows 7. I finally moved when I needed to, to run up to date SQL Server
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msft themself nail the coffin
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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Has there been a windows update in the last five years that hasn't caused major problems for lots of people?
As far as I can tell, the situation is either:
a: It's a marketing ploy, based on the core marketing principle "no news is bad news" If a number of users (usually less than 10%) have problems because of each update, then at least windows is being continually talked about (and the unaffected 90% feel lucky/superior/special/whatever). We already know how bad the ms marketing morons are, so this would not surprise me.b: It's an interdepartmental game, where one department each update has to "prove themselves" by causing problems for as close as possible to a randomly-selected number of users.
I know that ascribing malice to things where total, utter, and complete stupidity and incompetence are a strong possibility may be unwise, but I have a dreadful feeling that a: may be the case.
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MIT researchers have invented a machine-learning tool that predicts how fast computer chips will execute code from various applications. This tool says, "not fast enough"
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