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TYVM. But I rely on Instacart as I live alone and can't drive anymore since my eye surgery 10 years ago. If I didn't have instacart I don't know how I'd ever get any groceries.

Requirement #1: Supports Windows 7.

I thought the lightbulb computer was the computer they had aboard the submarine Seaview.

While amusing on the surface, let's substitute an ink-jet printer for the pen, and have a malicious party inject code as a print driver update, or maybe re-programs that chip in the ink cartridge, and the ink cartridge refuses to function on certain print jobs. Maybe it will only allow the words "WE SURRENDER" be printed as part of the message.

A Terminator walks into military headquarters, and asks the general who it needs to kill. The general says, sorry, can't use you. I have a stipulation that I can't use terminators because of the internal AI. You might turn on us and kill all the humans. The terminator says. Fine. I'll go get work for your enemy, and walks away.

I worked in a state gov't agency as a temp, twice, in the same department. Several of us had shared access to a PC that let us log-into a special terminal program and read records on some mainframe someplace. That PC had a 233-MHz cpu, I'll assume single-core. At that time, it ran Windows NT 4.0, and it had been patched to use a USB mouse. But we didn't rate an optical mouse, so someone would come in twice a day with a tote of cleaning supplies and clean the mouse ball.

After September 11, 2001, somebody came in from the federal government and ordered Windows XP to be the minimum OS for some security issue. The person who had to update that system said a 233 MHz machine was too-slow for XP, and she didn't have a replacement computer, she was already short on computers.

The next time I saw it, it was running XP.

Wouldn't an example of the given scenario be writing code 50 or more years ago in mainframe COBOL, and then still expecting to run it to this day?

I wouldn't call them business-critical computers, but I do have about 3-4 computers under one of my workbenches dedicated to certain work I did for a client. One of them has an EPROM programmer set-up, which includes a custom ISA-card, and a ribbon cable to an external box with a ZIF-socket. The software for that requires MS-DOS. To network that box, which is a 486SX, I run WFWG 3.11. Since these never go on the enternet or anything outside 'the lab', I don't worry about the old MS networking.

A second computer has an MS-DOS program that captures data input on a pair of RS-422 ports (two more special ISA cards) That let me look at packet data at a low level and watch which serial port received what data, and track character-level handshaking of a proprietary protocol.

A third computer under Windows 2000 ran a 68HC11 cross-compiler that didn't require a dongle. I also used this to run a remote debugger that allowed me to single-step through the 68HC11 code running on the target but moved to the target's RAM. To do this 'properly' I was constantly generating hard-copies from the compiler which would show me the C-code, and the resulting assembler code that I'd track through the debugger. I used a lot of paper on a project sometimes.

A fourth computer with MS-DOS, with WFWG3.11 also installed on it, had all my old CAD programs on it, from before they required dongles, so that I could pull-up drawings of some of the hardware I designed. Some of those were finicky about which mouse I use. I still have an old Logitech mouse C7 that two of my CAD programs required.

I was working on a replacement platform that put this into an Atmel-based controller, shipped a couple of samples, then went blind in one eye, while my client had a stroke and was out of action for a year. Between both of our health problems, that project kind of died.

How to turn a refrigerator into a brick.

I think we are confusing the line between the tool and the author. The AI is a tool, like a word processor, a typewritier, or a computer running MSWord or LibreOffice. Someone is going to say it isn't authentic if you used a spell-checker or a grammar-checker.

Is it disclosed on the box the TV comes in?

So, Rust.NET?

I was in a Costco one, and the men's room urinal was a trough, a strainless steel trough! I thought it was 'cool'.

What they need to do with urinal design is to make one that can catch the wide-spray of someone who sports a PA.

I worked as a temp once in a stae government building. It didn't have enough bathrooms. The toilets were of the type that drained/fastened to the wall instead of the floor. One day, someone big sat down and broke it. There was an angry announcement on the rarely-used building-wide speaker. Nobody owned-up to it.

If there's no reason for software to be slow anymore, then why, when I click on any item in my Windows 11 computer, does it take 30 secords for something to acknowledge I clicked? With a Ryzen 5 CPU boasting quite a few cores, an Nvidia gpu board, and 64GB of DRAM, why does it take so long?

Birds Nest soup with Chinese tomatoes?

Or Cinese noodles with Chinese tomatoes?

It sounds likw 2 domestic markets that China should use to rid themseves of their over-abundance of tomatoes.