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The magnetic north pole is actually fairly close to the geographic north pole right now, heading towards Russia. From what I recall, the article suggested that birds would be OK after a magnetic reversal, but probably not in a skewed field. It also said that birds navigate by the sun and stars but learn to navigate by the magnetic field. I'd guess that over the course of a migratory bird's lifetime, the field won't change enough for it to cause significant problems.
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What makes great software? Doing the work, doing it well, and remembering that you're writing for people—not machines. *Corn field available separately
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Am I the only one who got this reference?
The movie was made before I was born...
That's sad 
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Well, I got the reference! 
But wasn't Lord of the Rings made before you were born? We'd run out of movie quotes at that rate (and I haven't seen any recent movies) 
TTFN - Kent
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Well, true, but I am just surprised that no one else got your reference.
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I saw it as a reference to the movie(s), and made serious attempts to se the connection between the movies and the article. So I got only half of it. Maybe there is something in the movies that I didn't get. (I haven't played those DVDs for at least fifteen years - maybe I should review them.)
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Sun Valley 2 will be similar to Windows 10 Anniversary Update, so you can expect minor improvements and a few new features. And it will be the last update, until the next one
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Quote: Additionally, you can soon force the Start Menu recommendations tab to open files in Office web only if your device doesn't come with full desktop apps.
Am I correctly reading this as saying that W11 doesn't currently have a way to disable an "Upload My Private Documents to Microsoft" 'feature'?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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
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Josip Retro Bits is a YouTube channel that specializes in fun challenges on old hardware like the Commodore 64. Now do DOOM
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In nine categories of work tasks, more workers wanted AI to help than wanted AI to do everything or do nothing. In related news, 70% of this jobs could probably be done by AI
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In other words they want someone else to do their job while they get paid for it.
AI has a place to make people more productive, but many people seem to want to kick back and do nothing while getting paid.
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Experts predict artificial intelligence will gain sentience within the next 100 years. Some predict it’ll happen sooner. Others say it’ll never happen. Still other experts say it already has happened. I'm assuming it will tell us?
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Or some people will find out a game player is really an NPC...
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I always thought it would occur the year after the year of Linux on the desktop?
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If AI ever gains sentience, then the next logic step is for it to identify to a particular sex and gender...and political party. Equal rights for AI is sure to follow. Voting rights, no doubt.
Where does the madness end?
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Leaving aside the red herrings of sex and gender which are totally irrelevant for political rights, if an entity is advanced enough to recognize the Universality of political rights and demand them for itself, who are you to refuse them?
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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To be fair, it's hard to see AI making worse political decisions than humans.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Microsoft says Windows 7 recovery discs created using the Control Panel Backup and Restore app will fail to start after installing Windows updates released since January 11, 2022. Update works as designed
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But don't worry! ALL Windows 7 boxes came with TPM 2.0! Right??? 
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The January 2022 updates were possibly the worst set up updates MS has released in quite a while.
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Speaking on the Lex Fridman Podcast, hosted by MIT computer scientist Lex Fridman, Zuckerberg suggested that coding will evolve from a primarily “utilitarian” function to something more resembling “art.” I'm more of an "impressionist" programmer
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After the .NET May updates, Microsoft will no longer provide servicing updates, including security fixes or technical support, for .NET 5.0. All that code from 2020. Gone. Like tears in rain.
"When .NET 5.0 reaches end of support, applications that use this version will continue to run. That said, we won’t issue security updates for .NET 5.0 starting in May 2022 when we issue security updates for supported versions of .NET, which will be .NET Core 3.1 and .NET 6.0. "
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