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It reminded me of an overambitious educational game idea: The player builds interpreters for prayers directed at several gods, each cult having its own theurgic practices resembling different programming paradigms: https://gashlin.net/blog/pages/2010-12-25-shell-script-of-th...

> Notably, in its motion, Anthropic argues that pirating initial copies of Authors’ books and millions of other books was justified because all those copies were at least reasonably necessary for training LLMs — and yet Anthropic has resisted putting into the record what copies or even sets of copies were in fact used for training LLMs.

> We know that Anthropic has more information about what it in fact copied for training LLMs (or not). Anthropic earlier produced a spreadsheet that showed the composition of various data mixes used for training various LLMs — yet it clawed back that spreadsheet in April. A discovery dispute regarding that spreadsheet remains pending.

> we show that it is possible to identify the phrases spoken within encrypted VoIP calls when the audio is encoded using variable bit rate codecs

https://crypto.stackexchange.com/a/2188

See also https://breachattack.com/ when the plaintext is partially attacker-controlled.

People have been arguing this is not the case for at least hundreds of years.

I had what seemed to me a standard office, door but no window, in 2008 at my first job out of school at IBM in Austin. Some folks in that same hallway were doubled up but I was lucky to have one to myself while there.

A few jobs later in 2011 I also had one with a door, wall was a half-frosted window onto the hallway, was doubled up with another new hire eventually, this in SoCal, Ventura County.

Then in grad school from 2012 in NYC, also had a closet-scale office I shared with one of a rotating cast of officemates, that had an exterior window, nice view of 1 WTC as it was going up.

Since then (2016 on) it's been open offices, but at least with individual (if joined) desks, then WFH.

It was somewhat unique in that (at least originally) it only transmitted bitmap graphics, rather than having a hybrid system with some characters in ROM and others dynamically loaded.

1981 publication with specs of the pilot system (PDF): https://hcs64.com/files/Harashima,%20Kumamoto,%20Kitamura%20...

> The goal in life isn't to find something you love, it's to find something you can get realllll weird about.

It doesn't go super deep, he had a more technical book in the works but I haven't heard any updates about it for a while: http://www.warrenrobinett.com/ecv/annotated_adventure_toc/in...

> The developer's depressed? That's the least interesting thing to learn about anyone. Depressed people promoting their depression sounds disingenuous.

I wonder if you played The Beginner's Guide to the end? Not that it necessarily would have changed your mind, maybe the conclusion didn't strike you as it did me (even seeing it coming).

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/design/a-history-of-gaming-pla...

> The system got its start in late 1980, when one of the hardware designers at Western Technologies (Smith Engineering), John Ross, had a light bulb go off -- or, to be more precise, a surplus one-inch Cathode Ray Tube (CRT).

> Western Technologies redesigned the system as a tabletop, and later that year General Consumer Electronics (GCE) licensed it for production -- though now with a nine-inch screen.

More of that history here https://www.vectrex.be/vectrex_jay_smith.html

Any way I know of for making a str from bytes is checked or unsafe, even slices (by byte indexes) are checked (panic). Is there a current example that hasn't been fixed at the language level where this invariant can be broken without unsafe?

I tend to agree, but teaching another person is also a whole different set of skills from being able to drive something yourself.

One prominent example is the "curse of knowledge"; it may take a lot of practice becoming a beginner to be able to teach for a beginner's perspective in your area of expertise.