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Another classic movie! 
I think we're showing our ages. 
"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’ll need an ARM64 processor like the Snapdragon X Elite with NPU, 225GB of storage (SSD), and up to 16GB of RAM to use Windows 11 version 24H2’s highly anticipated “AI Explorer”. Something else to avoid upgrading
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Only ARM64 is pretty weird.
Are they AI lip-sticking their ARM pig?
Do they know it's not that great so it's more about limiting exposure by containing to a segment they know will not be seeing much growth/bulk?
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If this can provoke the makers of mainboards to produce a selection of ARM64 based cards with the same flexibility and expandability as the x64 boards (preferably using the same RAM, display cards, power supplies etc. etc. as their x64 counterparts), I think that would be a mark of progress. I suspect the day is getting closer.
At the time, I am not considering upgrading my desktop PC. My 2015 vintage x64 machine serves me well while I am waiting, but I am impatient. I'd like to play around with an ARM64, both at the instruction level and to see how well it fares with a complex OS on top. MS has worked closely with Intel to make sure OS and CPU matches(*) - I do not know if there has been a similarly close cooperation MS / ARM. At least the cooperation is not by far as long-lasting.
(*) Such as Raymond Chen's story about when Intel asked MS developers what would be their highest priority speedup, and the answer was 'The illegal instruction interrupt handling'. They had found that executing an illegal instruction was the fastest way to switch from user mode to privileged mode, and they wanted it to be even faster.
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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Microsoft Research Asia released a new paper introducing VASA, a framework for generating lifelike talking faces. Because the world needs more talking heads
Talking Heads, maybe (Qu'est-ce que c'est?), but talking heads, no.
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If the talking heads talk with a bit more common sense than the original heads... that could even be an improvement
M.D.V. 
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The potential of quantum computing is immense, but the distances over which entangled particles can reliably carry information remains a massive hurdle. When "it worked" is worthy of news, you might have a problem
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Quote: Major first: Quantum information produced, stored, and retrieved
Quote: The distances over which this particular system could transmit quantum memories haven't been tested – it's just a proof-of-concept prototype in a basement lab, one based on photons that aren't even entangled.
Say what????
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That "aren't even entangled" bit got me too. I'm not sure if maybe author misunderstanding about what was achieved.
That's thrown in there like it's an extra more fantastic bonus. On the whole, it would seem they are saying they can now transmit a byte to indicate the state of eight light bulbs... transmitting quantum information.
Well, lah-dee-frickin'-dah to that.
"Not entangled" seemingly undermines the whole thing entirely? What's the "achievement" then?
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The problem with so many tech and science reporters is that they don't understand what they're reporting on.
There are no solutions, only trade-offs. - Thomas Sowell
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.
- Calvin (Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes)
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Over 90 percent of respondents to a new survey say that low-code tools have boosted developer productivity in their organizations. 43.5 percent of developers are saving up to 50 percent of their time when they use low-code tools on a project. When creating applications, or when you rewrite them later in a non-low-code language?
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The 'no-code' dream… | CommitStrip[^]
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Haha "just for another two minutes".
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Microsoft's Copilot is responsible for an increasingly significant percentage of software being written — and is even being used to program corporations’ critical systems. But there are limitations. But if AI is your copilot, who will you eat when you crash in the mountains?
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Article wrote: and is even being used to program corporations’ critical systems.
Incoming news about something exploding somewhere in
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Attacks coming from nearly 4,000 IP addresses take aim at VPNs, SSH and web apps. In related news: Pope remains Catholic, bears enjoy woodlands
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Microsoft's ongoing fight against local accounts in consumer versions of Windows annoys pretty much everyone Because everyone should enjoy the reports of password leaks
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Oh man... I am procrastinating my switch to linux a lot... but they are trying harder and harder to push me away.
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I'll go to Linux as soon as I quit using applications and do nothing but fiddle around with the OS itself.
For now, I am using a number of applications. They are the ones holding me back.
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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more or less same for me, but I am starting to think on creating a coupld of VMs with a win 10 22h2 and then keep my windows software in there and tell them to go suck it up
M.D.V. 
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Quote: The account also backs up all your data and helps you to manage your subscriptions.
Interpretive Statement:
Microsoft will copy every byte of your personal information to their servers, to do with as they please. Microsoft will also know everything about your subscriptions.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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A former Amazon engineer who scammed more than $12 million from two decentralized cryptocurrency exchanges in 2022 was sentenced to three years in prison in a case that the U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) called the first conviction for hacking a “smart contract.” He's smarter than the average smart contract (but not smart enough, apparently)
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Craptobros are dead set against any kind of regulation and authority in their spaces so they can scam each other with impunity. I think this man shouldn't have been jailed since he used the system exactly as designed.
Any peon who willingly drops money into a Ponzi scheme (and all craptocoins are Ponzi schemes) deserves to have those money ripped away.
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
The shortest horror story: On Error Resume Next
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The internet is carried around the world by hundreds of thousands of miles of slender cables that sit at the bottom of the ocean. It's not all WiFi?
Highly pretentious intro and layout of the article, but a nice look at something that I know I never think of much.
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Very interesting indeed! Thanks for the read!
Quote: “The main issue for me in the industry has to do with hyperscalers coming in and saying we need to reduce costs every year,” said Wilkie, the chair of the ACMA, using the industry term for tech giants like Google and Meta. “We’d all like to have maintenance cheaper, but the cost of running a ship doesn’t actually change much from year to year. It goes up, actually. So there has been a severe lack of investment in new ships.”
They should use the term 'hyperidiots' instead of 'hyperscalers.'
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