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When we outsource cognitive tasks to technology – such as flying a plane, navigating, or making a judgement – research shows we may lose the ability to perform those tasks ourselves. I can't even remember how to write a physical letter
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Article wrote: research shows we may lose the ability to perform those tasks ourselves.
All people driving automatic motors without a clutch say "Hiiii" 
M.D.V. 
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Here's an interesting announcement from MS: Windows Dev Kit 2023 (Project Volterra) | Microsoft Learn[^]
There's a video explaining the hardware kit.
32GB LPDDR4x RAM and 512GB fast NVMe storage
Snapdragon® 8cx Gen 3 compute platform
Ports: 3x USB-A, 2x USB-C, Mini-Display (HBR2 support), Ethernet (RJ45)
Made with 20% recycled ocean plastic
Available in the Microsoft Store
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"Hotpatching" originated in Windows Server, cuts way down on update reboots. "Fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again"
My memory is as faulty as always, but I remember them saying this with the original NT 4 release, and either Weven or Vista (or both). Maybe even Weleven?
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Oh, perfect... So now the system will get broken while we are working? 
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I seem to remember this promise with XP SP3, Windows 7, and Windows 8. However, there really are fewer patches requiring a reboot each month. The problem is there is still one patch that requires it each month.
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Prepare your robotic Lawn mower for an adrenaline-fueled experience filled with dark corridors and hell-spawned demons. Mow those demons down!
ugh. Sorry, I *had* to use that one.
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Article wrote: Prepare your robotic Lawn mower for an adrenaline-fueled experience
where is the NOS when one need it?
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Computer science deals with concurrency, but what about simultaneity? "People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually, from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly... timey-wimey... stuff."
But...why?
I...guess I can see it if you wanted to "run this logic as it was defined at time 'x'", but it does seem to be prone to creating worse spaghetti than the alternatives. Or am I just missing something (as usual)?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: But...why?
I suppose the same reason as with many other things...
Just because.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "run this logic as it was defined at time 'x'"
at?
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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What I meant was: lookup how the logic was defined some time in the past, and execute the routine based on that code, rather than how it is currently defined.
So, a tax bill could be calculated based on the old rules instead of the current (when running on old data)
TTFN - Kent
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Norwegian laws are that way. If you are dragged to court for a crime committed a long time ago, and the laws have been changed in the meantime, you will be judged by the laws that were in force at the time of the crime.
As far as I know, this is common practice in most jurisdictions. Maybe if a law has been lifted, the punishment has been reduced, you may be judged by the updated law, but not if the law has been tightened, increasing the punishment. (That is not permitted under the United Nations Declaration of human rights.)
As far as I know, enforcing this is still a semi-manual procedure. Paid access (much too expensive for common man) to the electronic version of the laws of Norway, you can retrieve laws in force at any given point in time. (The free version gives you access to those in force today.) From there on, the rest is manual work.
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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Quote: Can a programming language implement time travel
Sure. It will break.
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Simultaneous and Heterogeneous Multithreading (SHMT) may be the solution that can harness the power of a device's CPU, GPU, and AI accelerator all at once, according to a research paper from the University of California, Riverside. Multi all the things!
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Read the article and it glosses over a fundamental assumption. Like all multithreading systems, you'll only benefit if your problem lends itself to this specific solution.
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See also Amdahl's law
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 not getting it.
That is: I am not getting what is new about this. This is what we have done since spooling ('Synchronous Peripheral Output On Line) and double buffering was invented in the 1960s. (Or was it as far back as the late 1950s?) We have let DMA devices and screen cards offload the main CPU for decades. Mainframes have had all sorts of 'backend' processors, running tasks in parallel with a bunch of other backends, intelligent I/O devices and whatnots.
Even my first PC was not so primitive that it ran like the leftmost alternative in the illustration in the article; it did disk I/O and screen handling independent of the CPU. Long before that, I worked on mainframes with frontends (they were referred to as 'channel units') where 1536 users could simultaneously edit their source code without disturbing the CPU; the compiler ran on the CPU, though. It was said that each of the three channel units were more complex than the CPU.
It sounds more like these guys are working on automating the balancing of loads on the available units, a task we to some degree are doing by hand crafting, even today. It is far from the first attempt at automating it; one of the better known ones is Wikipedia: Linda[^]. The Linda model is not based on a central scheduler, but distributed among all processing units, picking tasks from a list called 'tuple space' which is like a database relation: The tuple attributes indicates processor requirements, so each processor selects an entry using a predicate expressing its own capabilities.
Maybe this new project makes some significant and genuinely new contributions, but I fail to see it from the article. If it is just a new, centralized scheduler for fine-grained tasks to the unit capable of running them, I am not impressed.
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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Everything Microsoft partners and IT pros need to know about major Microsoft product milestones this year, including the next major Windows release, Microsoft Copilot, Windows Server 2025, Teams and more. "Programs, programs. Getcher programs."
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Microsoft's Windows Photos app now has its own generative erase tool that enables users to replace unwanted objects with AI-generated content. Get rid of that ex in your old photos
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Students at the University of Waterloo in Canada were disturbed when they accidentally discovered that the vending machines on campus had a hidden feature that they felt invaded their privacy, reports CTV News — an eerie tale on how surveillance tech has crept its way into all kinds of "smart" appliances. You must have a face if you want the candy
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Kudos to the writer who finally managed to use the sub-heading "Vend Diagram". 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Data is consistent with bosses using RTO to reassert control and scapegoat workers. Who wouldn't want a long commute for bad coffee and coworkers?
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RTO is also really liked by corporate CFOs who are trying to justify their expensive office leases.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: a long commute for bad coffee and coworkers
I use the commute to think about various personal projects, so the time isn't really wasted, and the coffee at work is the same as the coffee I have at home. The one thing I can't understand is why anyone would want to ork a cow? 
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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