I understand the security concept of it. Luckily my trip was short. As I also use wechat to communicate with some Chinese friends, my experience was different. First it send me an OTP on the new phone, then asked for two friends to send a number to the phone. Luckily I had the phone number of one and I managed to restore and to be honest having humans in the pipeline was a plus. Negative this had to be done over 5 minutes otherwise you back to square one.
Black swan events can happen to you. Recently I traveled to a European country from my base (Middle East). I normally take my phone and laptop with me and they are synced. I forgot the laptop charger and could not get one locally not at least for about a week and then dropped my phone and it got damaged. I bought another phone (Adroid) and tried to log in to by google accounts. It recognized the email and the pswd but then wanted verification from the original device! Despite having the original sim in the new phone.
On my return everything went smoothly through my laptop. Scary though.
My conclusion - have two physical phones + laptop all synced, plus hardcopy of important pswds etc.
Data is easier to protect by offline and online back-ups, but your online identity is hard.
I am not sure about the bargain part. It is a window in the roots of Chinese society and mainly its relation to rural communities and villages (from a sociology perspective). I would recommend it to anyone trying to understand a society based on its people and not its politicians. Also anyone from a rural small town in the US or any other country, I think will enjoy it.
True too many diacritics are difficult to use, although I think it was as easy as anything else when handwritten. As technologies progress any script will be written easily, so a nation having a distinct script is part of its identity. Also a mistaken belief is that a scripts glyphs and clusters need to represent the phonetics accurately. Hangeul is possibly the best phonetic script that I can think of other than using IPA which is now used for some African languages.
Not only Quora, but many other sites including the various "stackexchange" sites started declining I would say from about 2018, so this is not a phenomenon attributed to llms. IMHO I attribute this to the following: a) The overuse of social media conditioning users to provide short answers, rather than long thoughtful write-ups, b) Most topics have been saturated to the limit c) lack of interest from the new generation d) Bad management and moderation.
And of course you can try and produce this pdf using TeX. In this post https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/27482/963 I created a pdf of 15283 pages (lettersize) filled with lorem ipsum text and without the program running out of memory.
Very true, people complain about software, but my recent experience in a Gulf country, was stellar, all my medical records, were entered properly including procedures, it takes approximately 12 minutes to get medicine from the pharmacy and can view the records online. The patient interface could be improved a bit but did its job perfectly. The article was stellar, as it summarized the state of the art and the issues well.
You can think of mathematical symbols as representing math objects. They are fairly new in unicode and yes different alphabets can be used. Like the symbol for infinity is from the Hebrew alphabet. Unicode gives them different codepoints so that screen readers and eventually one day renderer engines can typeset them correctly. Of course if you try to understand some of the more esoteric math subjects, is now mostly diagrammatic. I dont understand them to be honest!
The author thinks that by "fooling" search engines and llms, using obfuscated codepoints is "Unicode's" revenge! Unicode is a truly gift to humanity, as it has so far encoded the majority of the worlds scripts, ancient or modern, brought order from the chaos of earlier encodings. The author forgets that humans write to communicate with other humans. If search engines are confused by such antics let it be.
No you can combine both, which is the preferred way. As an example (although it does not use CWEB, but its own code) LaTeX's .docstrip/doc/dtx system does that. It generates the code, a driver and documentation both for code and user. It also produces an index automatically. You can use it to write your Javascript code if you want. As Wirth or maybe it was Hoare used to say code is literature as it is meant to be read by humans not only computers.
The core language should be small enough so that a programmer can remember all its features. This makes for efficient and quick programming. The rest should be in standard or community libraries. In my book over the last few years only Go and Lua meet the criteria.
Looking back in my life, very few habits stayed with me over the years. One is to wake up early in the morning; read non-fiction books; Use TeX\LaTeX for writing. I read on average a book every 3-5 days. I read mostly during the early morning or late evening. I occasionally read the odd blog post. They serve different purpose.
A ban does stimulate innovation, as the banning of CFs shows (See Montreal protocol), It spurs innovation for alternatives as there is good money in it and it also spurs innovation by end-users. It is a long and slow process though.
It will need an international effort, like the Montreal Protocol for banning CFCs and HFCs. Legislation need to ban the end-use as well as the production of these chemicals. I was involved with a study in the late 80s early 90s about the economic impact of the Montreal protocol in southern Africa and there was huge resistance against it from major car manufacturers (the biggest consumption were car air conditioners at the time, more that the use of CFC-11 in foam packaging). Dealers stock piled stocks and rogue manufactures continued producing for many years. It takes 5-10 years for alternatives to be developed and 20-30 years for wide adoption before they disappear all together.
Read and Write to the file system - required to allow storage of a small encrypted file which holds a unique ID, QR code, infection status, configuration parameters, and proximity data of other devices using the Application.
Intrigued about handaxeweb.lua, which of course with little modification today, can be run within a LuaLaTeX document and produce a pdf with your explanation of LSM-trees and or the listing of the python program.
Thanks for the links. Reading the books is riveting, as they give a good account of the way of thinking in Britain at the time, and also the daily life in China. If you want an escape from Programming, these are highly recommended.