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Slightly tangential to your point, but I'm leaning towards programming languages no longer limiting themselves to ASCII. IOW, I'm leaning more towards APL than to J. I'm wondering …

Regular expressions will always remain fundamental to computer science: They characterise all of those - and only those - conditions on bytestrings (or bitstrings, or Unicode strin…

I think we should create a masculine-sounding word for "nurse", like "(patient/care) (guardian/maintainer/technician)". Nursing still sounds like breastfeeding (check the etymology…

Wow. That went over the heads of both a Harvard student and an Atlantic journalist.

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The Jewish Talmud uses Epicurus's name as a term meaning "heretic".

Once you have a bicameral syntax*, is there much point left in formal language theory? For instance, why would you still need complicated notions like LR(k) grammars (which Wikiped…

I think BC's features are equivalent to: - Python's native integer handling, which already has no size limit. - PLUS part of the Decimal module in Python's stdlib: BC's floats are …

Good point. But what if `i` does not divide `ans` evenly? I suppose you could use floats and then round.

me@localhost:~> bc d=1; for(i=21; i I couldn't start Python for some reason, so I went 1337 and used BC, which comes preinstalled in every Unix-like OS. BC has a surprising advanta…

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This is one of the most interesting comments I've read on this website.

See the recent breakthrough "Erdos Problem 1196" which experts couldn't solve for 60 years until ChatGPT Pro did. ChatGPT's key idea was the use of the "Von Mangolt function" which…

Maybe it's a good idea for SWEs to consider using LLMs to train themselves into new careers -- just in case. Most other "knowledge" professions -- by which I mean teaching, program…

That's a provocation of sorts, maybe. However, I'm curious how Israel's invasion was supposed to stop that. Either they would occupy part of Lebanon, but open up their soldiers to …

Hezbollah was formed after Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon, which killed 17k+ people, mostly civilians, and which Israeli historian Ilan Pappé said was mainly unprovoked (see bel…

> Jews What does this word mean in the year 2026?

I don’t think "Spectre doesn’t work across process boundaries" is correct as stated; cross-process and cross-security-domain Spectre attacks have been demonstrated. But I agree tha…

This reminds me of crypto wallets. I also dispute mike_hearn 's: > Smartphone HW attestation is better in every way They're still prone to side-channel attacks like SPECTRE. Crypto…

> Can you show me examples where locking down an OS has prevented fraud in banking? This is a non-sensical remark because it's impossible to "prove" a counterfactual. I find stuff …

ὦ Ευρώπη, this would kick off an arms race. μολὼν λαβέ!