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You are correct - unless you are in a position to recompile / rewrite your code to take advantage of the latest instructions.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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My current rig was built in late 2009 when Weven came out, so that makes it over 7 years old. I swapped out the spinning os hdd for a ssd a little over a year ago with a fresh upgrade to 10. It's now better than ever and still easily handles whatever I throw at it. There just haven't been enough hardware improvements, with the exception of ssd, to warrant a new box. My previous rebuild/replace rate was around 3 years until the current one. I think I can get another years or so out of it. 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Kent Sharkey wrote: It's almost like a five year-old computer is good enough these days
Probably about right! I upgrade my PC in 2013 (wrote about it here: Major Component Upgrades with a twist, benchmarks and all!) and only now am I considering upgrading the GPU again to get some better video processing performance.
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In this post, Joy Clark, a consultant at innoQ, claims that simplicity is key to creating and maintaining good software and explains why the functional programming approach offers a great way to achieve it. KISS the software
But no simpler!
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Send simple artificial intelligence...urgentz!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Two years ago, Google bought Launchpad Toys, the company behind the popular Toontastic kids app for iOS that allows you — whether you are a kid or not — to easily tell your stories through animations. Coming soon - CodeProject: The Movie
In 3D
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Yahoo is releasing the tool that helped the company perform Continuous Delivery at scale into the open-source community. Collapsing your corporation available separately
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Am I puerile to snigger at their choice of "screw" in their product name?
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Yahoo! 
Not at all. Or maybe it's just we both are.
TTFN - Kent
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Get your mind out of the gutter.
It's blocking my periscope. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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D-Wave releases problem-solving tool to open source in a bid to build quantum development environment Oh good, now I can use it on the quantum computer I'm building in my garage
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One set of neurons in the amygdala, the brain's center of emotion and motivation, cues the animal to pursue prey. Another set signals the animal to use its jaw and neck muscles to bite and kill. I think I saw that movie once
Not sure how this one got past the ethics boards
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So the elephants are right?
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
modified 12-Jan-17 23:24pm.
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Proposed rules for robots and AI in Europe include a push for a general basic income for humans, and ‘human rights’ for robots “Oh, are robots so different from men, mentally?”
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We should give the robots basic income too. That would solve a problem of autonomous Google car accident. It will just be paid from its account, as it will be responsible under the law. On another note: So this means we're developing robots to be basically our "slaves", but now the robots will have rights too. Probably a good idea to make them look the least humanoid and also dumb in all the aspects other than required by their profession.
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You're assuming that robots will want an income because you want one. That's transference.
Why should a robot want income?
We want an income for:
0: Food/health
1: Lodgings
2: Raising offspring
3: Transport
4: Entertainment
We don't use money for anything else.
- Item 0 doesn't apply to robots, unless some greedy w@nker decides to charge them personally for electricity and maintenance.
- Item 1 doesn't apply to robots, unless some greedy w@nker decides to charge them personally for it.
- Item 2 doesn't apply to robots.
- Item 3 doesn't apply to robots, unless some greedy w@nker decides to charge them personally for it
- Item 4 doesn't apply to robots, unless some greedy w@nker decides to charge them personally for Internet access.
So, as we can see, any robot-related problems in the future are really not about, and won't be caused by, robots.
They'll be about, and caused by, greedy w@nkers.
Adding robots to the world doesn't change a damned thing.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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So, a generic toaster[^]* soon has more rights than a mouse or a bacteria? 
*) something not alive has more rights than something living, because of movies.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Evidence once again that too many politicians are incapable of distinguishing fantasy from reality.
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Usually nobody can distinguish their front side from their back one, so I guess we're even?
DURA LEX, SED LEX
GCS 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--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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The server-side JavaScript juggernaut's complexity and vulnerabilities still bedevil many devs The fact you have to program with it in JavaScript?
"Node’s error-handling is also an issue". :eyeroll:
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I am doing Angular development at the moment and it relies on npm to get packages (Think of them as dlls required to build and run your application ). Initial setup of project downloads 350+ npm packages. 
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf *
Maths is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
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That is normal. You should try Nuget which is way more problematic than npm every could be.
modified 13-Nov-18 21:01pm.
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High-calorie drinks paradoxically switch on hunger circuitry in mice. Just putting this here for .. you know who
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The first day of the Brains vs. AI poker tournament is in the books, and the Libratus bot from Carnegie Mellon University emerged as the clear winner, collecting $81,716 to the humans $7,228. I wonder if they use it to subsidize their dev costs?
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The AI has a huge advantage: newness. Any genuinely good player can go far in a poker tournament simply because their patterns or tells aren't yet known. Plus, if the devs are allowed to tinker with it, they will essentially be continuously creating a new player.
(And how much of this is genuine AI and how much is simply clever algorithms?)
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