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You want to share some code you’ve written with a colleague, so you select it in the editor and hit Ctrl+C to copy it. As you paste it in Outlook/Slack/Teams, you realize that the indentation levels are inconsistent due to your original selection. It's too bad the Nobels have already been given out this year
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It only took 50 years, but there's finally a replacement that's safer and easier to use. So it's a key that types 'P@ssword1' for me?
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It looks good, but why do my guts tell me to wait a bit with that?
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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An automated and large-scale 'freejacking' campaign abuses free GitHub, Heroku, and Buddy services to mine cryptocurrency at the provider's expense. I stand corrected - people are using the cloud
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In this case, the Docker Engine uses the same containerd container runtime as the rest of the Docker ecosystem, but instead of using runc to run the container processes, it uses the WasmEdge runtime. The questionable force meets the unknowable object
Not sure what I was trying for there, but ... eh.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Not sure what I was trying for there, but ... eh.
Understandable, given the jargon in the citation leaves me clueless. Again.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: In this case, the Docker Engine uses the same containerd container runtime as the rest of the Docker ecosystem, but instead of using runc to run the container processes, it uses the WasmEdge runtime.
Oops
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The man recalled the moment he captured the remains of the £189 million holy grail of abandoned exploration - a forgotten spacecraft stranded in a desert "Nothing beside remains. Round the decay of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away"
Yeah, the Mirror. Sorry about that. I just really wanted to post that poem.
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I was expecting a UFO story. Instead, this is about real Soviet era spacecraft.
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Linux Torvalds, founder of the Linux kernel, has posted in the kernel mailing list that he wants to drop support for Intel 486 (i486) processors, citing their age. Bad news for that old machine you have under the desk
You won't be able to get the latest-greatest for it!
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I guess that it also has to do with modern Linux being so resource intensive that running it on an i486 processor shows a face that Linus doesn't want to show. Make sure that your OS can run only on hardware where you can say: Look at that performance!
Reminds me of my student days: That huge Univac 1100/21 mainframe under EXEC8 could run interactive terminals at 1200 bps, but to say that it was designed for it would be a blatant lie. But it was The Great Workhorse of the university. For the 'Programming 101' course, we got three 16-bit minicomputers, each handling 20 interactive terminals at 9600 bps. The mainframe guys demanded that the line speed of the minicomputers be reduced to 1200 bps so that The Great Mainframe would not be standing in an unfortunately light next to those tiny (and unworthy?) mini-machine terminals.
(As TAs in that 'Programming 101' course, we had sufficient control over the min-machines to keep the line speed at 9600 during normal working hours, but prepared to quickly reduce it to 1200 if one of those mainframe guys came over to check.)
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33 year old processors.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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I would have thought that the i486-specific parts of the kernel are stable, and haven't been changed in years. As long as Linux supports 32-bit CPUs of one variety or another; the only overhead would be regression testing. I am certain that is automated, so why remove the support?
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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The answer is simple: To push users over to more powerful processors so that they will take less notice of how resource demanding modern Linux has become.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: ...that old machine you have under the desk
How did you know I had a 486 lying around?!
I think I still have an old 386 laptop with a monochrome screen loaded with Linux 0.99 in the closet, and a Pentium 90MHz (or was that GHz?) desktop, too.
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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Did anyone notice they called him 'Linux Torvalds'?
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I didn't, but it might be because my brain does that all the time anyway. 
TTFN - Kent
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Physicists shot a laser pulse sequence mimicking the Fibonacci sequence at a quantum computer and ended up creating a new phase of matter in the process, according to a study published in Nature earlier this year. Did it make them actually work?
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Much of that article reads like voodoo to me. Two directions of time? Quasi-periodic sequence? The edge stays quantum-mechanically coherent?  
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As soon as I saw "Futurism" as the source I skipped it. As far as I can tell "Futurism" is written by wanna-be science fiction writers who know zero about science.
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Analyst IDC has forecast worldwide spending on IT and business services will grow through to the end of 2023, even as a global recession looks set to take hold. "It's good to be king"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "It's good to be king"
The ones in game of thrones may differ
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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Microsoft's 'Project Volterra' $599 device for developing, testing and running Windows-on-Arm apps is shipping in eight countries, starting today. ARM yourself
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A massive, malicious campaign is underway using over 200 typosquatting domains that impersonate twenty-seven brands to trick visitors into downloading various Windows and Android malware. Is that why no one answers my posts on c0dproject.com?
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A new method uses optics to accelerate machine-learning computations on smart speakers and other low-power connected devices. I'm so bright, my mother called me sonny
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