It's not just bespoke programs expecting the Windows API, it's operating system services such as interfaces used by databases and even serial ports which don't work under either newer versions of Windows or emulation. (Fun fact: In Windows it takes two pages of code, two pages of data structure and constant declarations, and about five function return error checks to do the equivalent of OPEN COM1 FOR OUTPUT AS #1 on any 8-bit computer.) As complicated as Windows is, it does have some stuff built in like the VB6 runtime (there is a shitload of VB6 code running out there) which must be manually installed under WINE. How many end users know how to do that? Yes, I've done it, but I wouldn't want to get the phone call at 3 AM when that system has a problem and they need it troubleshot right now because the plant is down and nobody knows how to do a fresh install on a new box.

...actual power generation is putting human explorers at Alpha Centauri.

While explaining why they do not want to interfere with our development as their technology has far outpaced ours, they casually mention that they found the black holes while exploring our sun and helpfully removed them for us.

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GWBASIC did not, but QuickBASIC did have functions, parameter passing and returned results, and procedure local variables. It could also run GWBASIC code directly despite GWBASIC not having those things. QuickBASIC also had a full-screen editor and allowed labels instead of line numbers, and did not require every line to have a number as GWBASIC did. QuickBASIC could also compile DOS executables that would run without the interpreter being present.

Hydraulic cylinders are used because they are as powerful as needed (even if more powerful than needed), can be made fast, and easy to control. A robot built to pick up a box that weighs 10 kg can easily kill a person who is in the wrong place because unlike living things they have no senses to report interference with their movement and no modulation of their motion if that occurs. Other technologies that aren't as dangerous simply don't perform as well and are quite a bit harder to work with.

...I've ever seen has had multiple layers of safety interlocks. Many of them have laser light curtains which shut the machine off if anything larger than a rabbit breaks a plane that completely surrounds the working area. I suspect this wasn't just breaking a safety rule, it was an overridden interlock that was either malfunctioning or inconvenient for the operation they wanted to perform. The guy wasn't just in the wrong place, the thing that was supposed to keep him from getting killed if he was in that place at the wrong time was probably disabled.

Streaming is shit until movies like these are all available somewhere readily accessible.

LLM's have no experience with the real world, and only know of it, and history, and everything else through words they read that (hopefully) humans have posted. The LLM has no basis to tell which of those words are fact, fiction, lies, or propaganda; it just draws frequency vectors and connects them back up in similar patterns. There is simply no way for such a thing to be made either truthful or accurate. The best they can ever do is to create a template for something you might want to create, but every single aspect of that template then has to be checked against reality because the LLM can't do that and the errors they make are sometimes hilariously bad. The biggest danger is that their output sounds so good that the temptation for human users will be to trust it much more than we should, and actually try identifying random mushrooms by tasting them (to give one of the more hilarious examples).

The idea that there is a single cow anywhere in the world that was raised and butchered because of the existence of the leather market is daft. The value of the leather from a cow hide is a rounding error on the value of the animal. In the 1980's you had to pay a minimum of $500 to $1000 for a full length pair of leather pants or a full leather dress. Very similar garments are available today in the $100-$150 range. This is because of the explosive growth of the fast food industry in the 1990's. Leather is a glut on the market, there are no longer enough bidders to drive the price up very far and they sell for whatever they can get just so the slaughterhouse can get rid of them. It has in fact become so common that other items which used to be super expensive premiums when made of leather are now not much different in cost from other much less durable materials.

Anyone that thinks any of these "climate resolutions" were anything more than glad handing and giving patronage to an angry teenage girl is a fucking idiot. Our World Leaders are owned by the wealthy elite who don't care how many millions die due to the climate change they are creating at an ever increasing rate. You want you and your family to survive? Then it's time to band together and take direct action against they world governments and wealthy elite, with violence if necessary. This isn't time for some hippy-dippy protest, it's time to rise up and strike back out of Self Defense. Because they are taking direct actions to kill possibly hundreds of millions, even billions through their industries that are driving the climate crises. They are literally willing to conduct mass slaughter for profit. Why lay down and take it just so 20k or so people can make a profit off a crises they are creating? Stand up and defend yourselves, because no one else will.

What books are "the left" banning? Give us a list and cite your sources ... it's ok, I'll wait

That is all.

They've always known it's not a hoax. They just don't care how many die due to heat, drought and famine, so long as they and the wealthy elite they serve can extract as much wealth from the economy before the collapse of society starts and can hopefully do away with Democracy and force as many people as possible into slavery in their "Neo-Feudalist" paradise where they can live the good life as "God-Kings" without the tyranny of pesky laws, government oversight and "human rights" to deal with

The 8088 and 8086 were introduced in 1979. They had the same 16-bit CPU core and instruction set, but the 8088 had an 8-bit memory bus while the 8086 had 16 bits. The 8080 was a purely 8 bit design. While they were inspired in part by the earlier 8080, featuring similar register maps and instruction set, they were not object-code compatible with 8080 programs. They were meant to be "source compatible," meaning that porting 8080 assembly language programs to the x86 would be relatively easy compared to, say, porting to the entirely different Motorola architecture.