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AIs have no reason to want to harm annoying slow inefficient noisy smelly humans.

Being liberal in what you accept is fine, as long as what you accept is precisely documented. But then, is that actually "being liberal"? Better advice is to not do something unexp…

It was a denial of service attack, not in the sense of soaking up my brain cells solving puzzles, but in causing me to devise and program my own solver. (In Java, text console only…

Ignorance is bliss?

Assume use of 8 bit characters. Declare a constant 256 entry array pre-filled with all False except for the five (or six) vowel characters. This is baked into the code and not init…

Should the tests include some 10 GB files?

Peaking Peeking Peking

For this one: cense, cents, scents, sense Please add: Since

boar, Boer, boor, bore How about adding: Bohr

Data: Captain, the censors have detected incoming copyright infringement notices. Riker: Shields up!

Kneel Neal Neil Knight Night Nite Knot Naught Not Lager, Lauger (a last name), Logger Macs Mac's Macks Maks Max Tends Tens Tins Threw Through Thru Ware Wear (clothing), Wear (dimin…

Are we not going to count: Gnu Knew New

Another one from my list that is missing is: Cents Scents Sense Since

For: call, caul, col Wot about: cawl ?

JasperReports library used that library, and forked it at it's last LGPL version.

I once (2016 ish) used a serial-port library for Java. Needed to be cross platform desktop app for Linux, Windows and Mac (in that order, all on x86/64). And it was. I have forgott…

FYI . . . Download old BYTE magazines from here: https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Byte_Magazine.htm (but note URL has changed to worldradiohistory) https://www.worldradiohistor…

Because that is a hardware fix. Why fix in hardware what can be fixed in software? A simple Latex package could add hydrophobic coating feature to the document file. Next: the devi…

Or Diet Coke.

If there were an industrial civilization here before us (modern humans) then it would be astonishing that in all of the fossils we have discovered, we've never yet discovered a sin…

A walled garden is only seen that way by those inside. To those outside it is a prison camp.

Not the same thing, but I am reminded of Rez, Derez and the Resource Editor of ancient Mac daze.

Taiwan Or maybe more specifically TSMC.

10 PRINT "Hello World" 20 GOSUB 10 30 RETURN 40 END No worries. The stack will unwind when it reaches the RETURN statement.

I would prefer a version of the license that did not use fowl language. Fowl language is not suitable for my porpoises. Beyond that, it would be nice if the license expressly grant…