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I'm not seeing any "Call me Ishmael".

Why not just flush the toilet paper?

I wouldn't recommend boasting about owning bitcoin either but why couldn't you involve the legal system? They can go after the criminals who beat you with the pipe just as they could if they beat you to get to your cash/luxury car/art/jewelry/other valuable stuff.

I personally (using Arch, btw) definitely prefer Arch's behaviour. If I update or install a daemon, I generally want to configure it before (re)starting it.

Is that necessarily a bad thing? If the average person doesn't understand a law, shouldn't that law be reworked?

I think the general idea isn't that they can't but that they either won't, because they're not executing JS, or that it would slow them down enough to effectively cripple them.

> How should a microkernel run (WASI) WASM runtimes?

Same as any other kernel—the runtime is just a userspace program.

> Can a microkernel do eBPF?

If it implements it, why not?

Shite isn't a euphemism like shoot, it's a synonym of shit.

Is pulling decisions out of OpenAI's arse really better?

I was unaware that Brexit included leaving the continent.

> Maybe catching up to 40+ years of development takes a little bit of time?

Sure. But that's not OpenBSD's problem, is it?

This doesn't really work for projects that want to be closed source, as they can just not publish the source. After the 10 years, people can copy the binary, but that doesn't really give you a whole lot of benefit.

And if a project does want to be open source eventually, they can already license their code that way.

I assume GP meant that a lot of compilers also interpret and interpreters also compile.

For compilers, constant folding is a pretty obvious optimization. Instead of compiling constant expressions, like 1+2, to code that evaluates those expressions, the compiler can already evaluate it itself and just produce the final result, in this case 3.

Then, some language features require compilers to perform some interpretation, either explicitly like C++'s constexpr, or implicitly, like type checking.

Likewise, interpreters can do some compilation. You already mentioned bytecode. Producing the bytecode is a form of compilation. Incidentally, you can skip the bytecode and interpret a program by, for example, walking its abstract syntax tree.

Also, compilers don't necessarily create binaries that are immediately runnable. Java's compiler, for example, produces JVM bytecode, which requires a JVM to be run. And TypeScript's compiler outputs JavaScript.

Calling someone petty for wanting to keep the workflow they're used to hardly seems good-faith to me.

Actually, Schadenfreude can be neatly translated into a single English word: schadenfreude. English just adopts words that it lacks and (from a German perspective) it's not really special in that regard: We, too, have adopted words, like photography (spelled Fotographie in German) or folklore (original spelling retained) from English.

I've never heard a fanny pack called a body bag in German. It's a Bauchtasche in my family.

Can't you just use a semicolon to do the same in English? And even if not, just because an idea is split over several sentences doesn't mean you can't communicate it. That's what paragraphs are for.

> Some thoughts are too complex for English.

English just adopts all the good German words. Every time I, a native German speaker, have struggled to express something in English it was either because my personal vocabulary was lacking or because of societal differences, never because English is somehow inferior.

It is a compound word. Nahe (close by) liegend (lying).

Yes, I suppose that would actually be a way around the consciousness problem. I really like the memory blocker idea—if we assume that it's not 100% accurate and one or two memories can still bleed through, that would be a third explanation for (claimed) past-life memories, beyond reincarnation or them being made up. They're just memories of a previous simulation or real life, not filtered by the blocker.

Sounds like an interesting concept for a story, if nothing else.

I think the last part is the problem with this argument. We can already simulate worlds (Minecraft), they're just very different from our own. It has to be possible to actually simulate our universe. Not just theoretically, but also practically: Someone needs to have enough energy, time, engineering ability, other resources, and enough motivation¹ to run the simulation.

Also, if you permit me to get spiritual for a moment, I believe that it could be theoretically possible to simulate any fully materialist universe, but I'm not convinced consciousness can arise from doing maths. Since I am conscious, this universe must not be simulated, no matter how many simulated worlds actually exist.

[1] I'm assuming that most creatures intelligent enough to understand the concept of simulating a universe will want to try it. But if it takes an entire civilization to do so and that civilization has to choose between, say, spending the energy on simulation running or on food production, it's pretty clear what will happen.

Oh, definitely. I just wanted to list the one improvement I have actually used, even if I didn't actually need it.

Are better cell phones making everyone's life better? I am doing nothing on my current smartphone that I didn't do on my first. I'm not even sure if I'm charging it less often. I guess the camera is a little better.

Why do you need to detect Zalgo-isms and why is it so important that you want to force people to misspell their names?

Normally, I'd just dismiss this as ChatGPT being trained not to disagree, but as a non-native speaker this has me doubting myself: Is prompt really pronounced rompt?

It feels like it can't possible be true, but on the other hand, I'm probably due for having my confidence in my English completely shattered again by learning another weird word's real pronunciation, so maybe this is it.

> Another favourite theme was to boast about his humble origins and plebeian influences – ‘I have not been ashamed to learn from tramps, butchers and barbers’ – even though he had benefited from a sound education as a child and gained a doctorate in medicine from the University of Ferrara.

I don't see the contradiction here. He does not claim to have only learned from ordinary people, just that he wasn't ashamed to do so. And that quote says nothing at all about his origins, humble or not.

In general, I don't understand the point of this article. It feels like a hit piece, but to what end?

Also, it really shouldn't come as a surprise that he was an alchemist. He lived during the sixteenth century. The alchemist that would go on to formulate classical mechanics was born a century after Paracelsus' death.

> Also there's a chance for this article to be an input for various llms, thus increasing the confusion in the future.

Sounds good. Anybody who uses LLM output without any understanding of their own deserves it.

Why would you need Google Maps to get home from school? I have an absolutely terrible sense of direction, but even I can memorize a single route after walking it a couple of times.

Is this really that US specific? Ages 6-7 seems to be pretty common for first grade¹, which gives you 13-14 for eighth.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_stage

No, you can just use a pointer to struct S without ever defining the fields of S, no void pointers required.