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Re:It's Never Too Late to Be Successful and Happy on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @01:54AM (#20389304)
Have you tried going to church and making babies?

Serious question.

Re:It's Never Too Late to Be Successful and Happy on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @01:53AM (#20389298)
contentment > happiness > success
x87 has been functionally superseded (largely by various SSE iterations), but it is still supported for backwards-compatibility.

Modern applications and compilers largely do not use x87, but they can, and x87 results depending on hidden bits persists in modern x86_64 CPUs.