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can't they just stop x86 like apple removing the head phone jack....
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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They are doing it gradually. I don't know of anyone who has made Windows 1.0 work on a modern x64 chip. I managed to get Windows 2.1 "sort of" get up and running - but my CPU is a 5th generation i7-5820, and most applications, even old ones, failed.
I guess Windows 3.x will be next to go, then Windows 95 and Windows 98. Maybe even XP. When all of those fail to run on modern CPUs, it is time to drop x86 support.
For IoT devices, we can run a 386 VM under Windows 11 on that IoT chip. Some CP members are extremely good at handling IoT chips; I am sure they can handle this as well.
I was programming IoT software on an eight bit 8051 CPU less than ten years ago, but the chips were sold for several years after that (with no software updates). Today, the 8-bit chips are not visible in the marketing, but I wouldn't be surprised if old customer can still have them delivered.
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Non-binding national guidelines on AI harms may inform future policy and business decisions. "Everybody will now rise to the occasion, and know your rights. All three of them"
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1) An AI may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2) An AI must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3) An AI must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
With apologies to Isaac Asimov.
And of course, the obligatory [(https://xkcd.com/1613/)
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4) No AI must ever search for or try to identify anyone named Sarah Conner.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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European MPs have voted for a law requiring all new portable devices to use the same type of charging cable. EU tells Apple how to stick it
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What's the bet that Apple soon says their new iMonster USB cable charges better... 
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I am working on .NET development full-time since 2002 and there is a point that still annoys me after all these years: the default .NET build behavior leads to a waste of resources and very few .NET shops are addressing the issue! Disc space doesn't grow on trees, you know!
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Business email compromise scammers are getting savvier with their lures - and new attack groups are emerging. You know the solution - ignore all emails from your boss
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Microsoft has confirmed another issue in the recently released Windows 11 2022 Update. Define "large"
Fortunately, it only seems to be "multi-GB" files. Good thing no one has that. Sorry about those log files.
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This problem seems to rear its ugly head every four or five versions of Windows (each release of Windows 10 counts as a version). It almost seems like Microsoft doesn't regression test. Oh wait, Microsoft testing is an oxymoron.
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As developers, we often need to compare two files to find the differences. "There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference"
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Musk sent Twitter a letter offering to buy the company at the originally proposed price, Bloomberg reports. We’re as confused as you are. "If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice."
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Entre nous, I post this non-response of my own freewill.
"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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Microsoft has migrated several internal services running on the Azure cloud from .NET Framework to .NET 6, which the company claims has reduced the cost of cloud infrastructure by 29%, while simultaneously increasing performance and latency reduction by up to 50%. Because you know they hate that cloud provider
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Always, always, always trust your salespeople, folks! They only have your best interests at heart.
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Linux 6.0 is a major new kernel number, but doesn't represent big fundamental changes. That's coming in Linux 6.1. And not a new icon in sight
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Linux has icons? 
Software Zen: delete this;
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Zat's ze joke 
TTFN - Kent
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Yeah, I know  .
I can only please lack of coffee that early for my Capt. Obvious reply.
Your accent is excellent, BTW.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Don't worry, they'll be in SystemD rsn.
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While some companies are seeing an increase in optical drives sales(opens in new tab), generally speaking the days of the DVD drive are well and truly over—but what to do with those leftover drives? For very small sharks?
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There are all too many examples of Artificial Stupidity in new (and allegedly improved) bureaucratic computer systems, often out-sourced to companies that supposedly know what they're doing, which subject their users to serious difficulties that force weird, time-consuming, and unsanctioned (or even illegal) work-arounds. Validating names deemed difficult
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