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Too bad. No mojo, no respect.
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What a stupid name for a programming language. 
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The leaked language model was posted to 4chan. The model was previously only given to approved researchers, government organizations, and members of civil society. The Llama is on the lloose!
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Given the amount of hidden data collection Facebook does this is simply karma in action.
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A paper in Nature reports the discovery of a superconductor that operates at room temperatures and near-room pressures. The claim has divided the research community. Because sometimes, I just have to share the headline
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Sounded like something you would write.
[Edit]
Now having read the article I think that the fact they are using Lutetium means they might be stringing us along, or playing us for fools.
Working hard for that dadjoke.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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DuckAssist summarizes answers from Wikipedia and displays them at the top of DuckDuckGo’s search results. Why not, everyone else has one
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Microsoft is spotted testing a new option for users to place their taskbar up on their Windows 11 screens. As nature intended...
For the Mac migrators, anyway.
So nice that they're taking design queues from Win95, though.
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And no new icons? Pfff... 
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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What about the left or right side of the screen? Asking because I've been on a Mac because of work for going on 5 years now.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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Bring back the full suite of Windows 10 taskbar features. The Windows 11 taskbar takes me twice as many clicks to get to anything. Yes, 2 clicks vs. 1 doesn't seem to be that much but it really does add up over time.
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Its epitaph is not yet inscribed on the Killed by Google website, but the end is easily seen from here (although it should also be noted its death was called as early as 13 years ago). If only there were some place developers could go to communicate!
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Should we create the site "Google Zombie Projects" to complement "Killed by Google"?
Maybe they don't know about the rule #2 (Double Tap)
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
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The IBEX spacecraft, in space since 2008, stopped responding to commands last month, requiring the reset. When in doubt, reboot
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Recent speeches from DOJ Assistant Attorney General Jonathan Kanter invoke a historical precedent that's bad news for Google. They're drinking everyone's milkshake?
I'm sure there's an "Esso" joke in there somewhere, but not from me today, sorry.
edit: fixed quote
modified 7-Mar-23 16:19pm.
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Take a gander at the quoted text, bad copy/paste! 
"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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Ah, thank you. Fixing.
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I'm sure there's an "Esso" joke in there somewhere
No, they're all Shell companies.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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We need a :sucking breath: icon (the sound one makes when one hears a really bad pun).
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 know that sound, my wife mand my friends do it all the time. I still don't know why.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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I’ve been working on a zine about how computers represent thing in binary, and one question I’ve gotten a few times is – why does the x86 architecture use 8-bit bytes? Why not some other size? Because 9 would have been too much?
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She should subscribe the CP news...
Quote a couple of messages below: That prime numbers and powers of 2 fascinate many people comes as no surprise.
Ta-Taaaa.... mistery solved.
4 - 16 (too few combinations)
8 - 256 (nice number, allows a lot and is low enough to be used mentally or even by paper)
16 - 32768 (too much combinations for mental / paper work)
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Because they tried 4 but it wasn't enough.
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On the 36-bit Univac-1100 series, you had the choice between 9-bit and 6-bit bytes. 6-bit "Fieldata" was the original character set of the EXEC-8 OS, uppercase only. 9-bit was introduced when ISO-646 (in the US of A known as ASCII) became popular.
DEC-10 and DEC-20 (mainframe relatives of the far more well-known PDP series) also had 36 bit word length, but they stuffed five 7-bit bytes to a word, with one bit to spare. They handled ISO-646 from the beginning, but lots of programmers thought it was an odd format.
Note that both U-1100 and DEC-10/20 were word addressable in memory, not byte addressable. Memory size was commonly expressed in K (you didn't have machines with Mega-memories then!), meaning K-s of addressable units, i.e. words. Then came the IBM 360 architecture in 1964, the first major CPU family that was octet addressable. (Even the IBM predecessors to the 360, the 704/709/7090, were 36 bits word addressable machines). IBM marketed their 360 memory by the number of addressable units, misleading lots of customer to think it was super-cheap compared to e.g. Univac or DEC - but 1 K of IBM octets were just 22% as much memory (measured in bits) compared to the Univac/DEC 36 bit words.
In the 1960-70s, IBM had something like 80% of the computer market in the US of A. They were not quite that dominating in Europe, but still they were The dominating manufacturer. When IBM went for 8 bit bytes, everybody else followed suit, at least for new architectures.
(One are were IBM did not manage to dominate the world: Their EBCDIC character set never was adopted by others - except for communication with IBM mainframes. I see two major reasons for that: There were more national variants of EBCDIC than we have Linux file systems today. And, for historical reasons, A-Z did not fill 26 consecutive code values - mixed in with the alphabetics were other, non-alphabetic characters. Working with ISO-646 was just so much more convenient!)
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