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How will a machine ever replace his famous warmth or empathy?
Have they tried paying them consistently?
Re:Is OpenSUSE at Crossroads? on Saturday July 20, 2024 @12:01PM (#41017416)
“Linux distros are dying!!!”

“The young people are <slur>!!!”

Literally in the same thought. It’s almost impressive.

Re:Americans Are Skipping Doctor Visits Due to Costs on Friday December 15, 2023 @01:03AM (#38651459)
Water gets wetter.
Re:I Fixed a Parasitic Drain on My Car in 408 Days on Monday April 10, 2023 @01:06PM (#35514534)
As an example, my 2017 Corolla runs the fuel pump for a while 5 hours after shutdown to test fuel system pressurization. I didn’t even know until I recently started parking it inside and I finally heard it running.
Re:Surveillance Footage of Tesla Crash on SF’s Bay Bridge on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @12:39PM (#34328455)
I think if the Tesla had been avoiding a hazard, there would be a lot more gray area for FSD to hide in. It’s true that sudden braking and swerving is sometimes the least-bad thing for a driver to do, but if a human driver showed a pattern of repeatedly performing that maneuver for no reason, at some point a reasonable person would have to conclude that that driver is at least partly at fault for the inevitable crash that happens.
Microsoft has a(t least one) Linux Distro: CBL-Mariner [1]. Not a desktop offering, obviously, but I felt like it was worth pointing out.

[1] https://github.com/microsoft/CBL-Mariner

The article is probably describing RISC-V as growing in popularity, not number of instructions.

The distinction between "reduced" (RISC) and "complex" (CISC) is more philosophical than "number of instructions."

Even as the RISC-V specification gains new instructions, the modular design of the architecture is specifically designed to allow implementations to pare down to just the subset they need.