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Syntax can be simple or complex, and - independently - easy or hard.

IMO Lisp's is hard, but simple; Python's is hard and complex.

Tooling can make it easier (keeping track of parentheses and significant whitespace, respectively), but not simpler.

A.k.a. "Move fast and break things".

What if someone specifically asked for faces that can bypass the filter? Is this AI its own adversary that filters its own output? Or is that another, better AI?

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) has a similar element: several people obsessing over a mountain-like shape, they paint it, sculpt it, etc, and want to travel there. Later it turns out to be the place where the UFOs arrive.

There's no such operating system as "Linux". I don't know what these "workarounds" are exactly, but if it's something like installing a driver for a fingerprint reader that's present in a standard Fedora distro, but not in a vanilla Ubuntu then I don't see the problem. Of course it won't work out of the box.

Social justice warrior (SJW) is a pejorative term and internet meme used for an individual who promotes socially progressive, left-wing and liberal views, including feminism, civil rights, gay and transgender rights, identity politics, political correctness and multiculturalism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_justice_warrior

The Wikipedia has this list of password managers with feature comparison:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_password_managers

If robustness is what's important to you, then your challenge is to do that efficiently.

For example, maybe you can use something like the Reed–Solomon error correction, which allows you to balance between no redundancy and full duplication, both in cost and benefit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed%E2%80%93Solomon_error_cor...

Uzi Nissan.

A product is not overengineered when it has many features, but when its many features make basic usage problematic, generally because the thing becomes less robust and fails too often. These features in the video look useful, but we haven't heard anything about failure rates, so we can't say if it's overengineering or not.

> "Science is prediction, not explanation." - Fred Hoyle

I don't know about string theory, but this is totally wrong. Exploiting a simple correlation gives you the ability to predict to a certain extent, but that's not science, that's numerology. I couldn't find the source of the quote, but I looked up the guy and found what I expected. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Hoyle#Other_controversies:

Hoyle also supported the following controversial hypotheses and speculations:

The correlation of flu epidemics with the sunspot cycle, with epidemics occurring at the minimum of the cycle. The idea was that flu contagion was scattered in the interstellar medium and reached Earth only when the solar wind had minimum power.

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A mirror is an object that reflects an image / light / photons. There are mirrors with different reflectiveness and different construction. In the video the prof says they are using a "highly reflective nanostructured mirror", so it's obviously not exactly your silvered glass bathroom variety mirror, but in principle it's the same: a surface that reflects almost all photons, and absorbs or transmits almost none.

The box is also not necessarily like your average shoe box, I'd guess it's much smaller (millimeters), show it's not shown on the video directly, up close.

The problem with machine translation is not the obvious general mediocrity, but the occasional undetected catastrophic failure, especially in medical context. I don't think DeepL (or any other fully automated system) is any more reliable in this sense.

Or press the Alt button to show the Menu bar temporarily.

This question is relevant when 1: one of the most important (perceived) adversarial is the NSA; 2: as of 2012, 80% of The Tor Project's $2 million annual budget came from the United States government; 3: the Underhanded C Contest exists and we can assume that however secure Rust is, writing underhanded Rust code is possible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tor_Project#Funding

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underhanded_C_Contest

If satire, it's hilarious. If not, it's ridiculous. The same people will take it seriously either way, so there's not much difference.

By size of fan base, cricket is worldwide #2, basketball is #7.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sport#Popularity

> [...] "A miracle of interoperability" that allowed a movie made in Hollywood to be recorded on a DVD manufactured in China to run on a player assembled in India, according to standards designed in Nederlands and Japan, playing in a home in Australia.

Well, it can be played in Australia only if its DVD region code is 4, and it cannot be played in any other countries you mentioned, which are all in different regions (USA: 1; China: 6; India: 5; the Netherlands and Japan: 2). So there's that. "A miracle of interoperability."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD_region_code

It worked for me when I studied Japanese, German and Russian, even though the language of instruction is English, which is not my native language. The trick is that you have to follow the instructions, not just "listen to some tapes". The Japanese course consists of 3*30 units, the recommendation is one 30 minute unit every day. Do that, no more, no less. It's not magic, even if you master all 90 units, that's just a very basic spoken proficiency. But it gives you that result reliably.

In some programs those keys will move the cursor to the start/end of a line of text horizontally (text editors, web browser when you type in a form, etc.).

Here you go:

> As for military affairs, even after the dissolution of the USSR and losing a considerable part of its capabilities, today’s Russia remains one of the most powerful NUCLEAR states. Moreover, it has a certain advantage in several cutting-edge weapons. In this context, there should be no doubt for anyone that any potential aggressor will face defeat and ominous consequences should it directly attack our country.

You quoted the "wrong" part of the speech. Here it is, I highlighted for you:

> As for military affairs, even after the dissolution of the USSR and losing a considerable part of its capabilities, today’s Russia remains one of the most powerful NUCLEAR states. Moreover, it has a certain advantage in several cutting-edge weapons. In this context, there should be no doubt for anyone that any potential aggressor will face defeat and ominous consequences should it directly attack our country.

The Pledge form on this page contains an "Entity type" field, in which there's a "Freelancer/Consultant (self-employed)" option.

> I don’t have a good feel for how fast the Game Boy runs, so I did a bit of speed optimization.

This sounds like a very wrong approach to optimization. I mean, if you don't know exactly what and how to optimize, or if there's a need for optimization at all, then what are you doing?

What language? Prolog?

+1 for the reader. -1 for the writer.

> Never disliked the lack of non-ascii support.

Ah, the elusive quadruple-negative.

And what language should we use to create such an OS? Maybe Rust?

Wow, that's at least a dozen bananas long!