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More money attracts more eyes, hands, grey matter which they would otherwise focus on something with more money. But it is a long process.

> At best, you've given unlimited, unsandboxed access to everything on your computer to the author of whatever piece of software you've just installed.

That's the risk I take for very good returns and very high quality software. My stack is Visual Studio, Julia, Wolfram Suit, Emacs, Blender, MSYS2, some great video games, compilers for various languages, Firefox, Spotify, SumatraPDF.. I see no reason not to trust any of the authors of these software. And it is logically my decision to trust or distrust, not some helicopter parent company. Right?

In the windows world I download the installer for whatever software I need, click next->next->next (or choose where I want my stuff in my filesystem, add it to the path, opt in or out of stuff) and it works out of the box. No stores. (Well there is one, but I guess no one uses that)

In the linux world, I mostly look for package managers, or if not, its mostly just ./configure -> make -> make install (or choose my own defaults at configure stage). (There are some app stores like canonical, but I guess no one uses that)

Haven't used modern apple computers much, but I suppose its a mix of dragging and dropping dmg files, installers and package mangers (brew) or compile it yourself stuff.

Why do any phones not do installation like this? Its simple and you get what you want?

> For years I was mostly just confused that "crypto" was anything at all

crypto is cryptography for me, a serious and posh discipline of applied mathematics, linguistics, analytics and computer science.

That's not individualism, that's absence of scale.

And people who work on transoceanic flights advertise unicorns to people.

All the images with people in background have real faces so far

> Why would you use windows nowadays.

1) PC Gaming is a big market mover.

2) (Underrated) As a systems developer, Visual Studio is one of the best development environments I have ever used. VS for windows is the real one, VS for mac is a totally different software.

Also, the original build code is extremely hard to read!

> C++ devs already uses templates, smart pointers, RAII, etc.

These are frowned upon in the game industry circles. Most of the game code is C style C++ with occasional function overloading and classes.

There is a tremendous amount of human talent in the video game industry that usually does not bleed into the general tech industry or film industry.

I wonder how well such talent is compensated by the incoming tech giants..

There is a lot of money in video game publishing business, given how video games are slowly becoming persistent and ongoing. Companies like Microsoft and Amazon have the means to handle such publishing, and they would surely want control on that cash cow.

Cosmic time considered, not much time has passed.

Both are focusing on different problems.

The DL community is not actually working on general intelligence; they are working to automate, optimize and scale business cases while trying to reduce real costs. No corporation really wants another untamed general intelligence (human or otherwise) to cross them anyway. We already have human general intelligence.

The AGI community is still in the fundamental research mode, which is the mirror of the corporate interests. They have to shift goalposts to ask fundamental questions about AGI which is hypothetical (and to reiterate, not desired in a corporate use case, we already have humans who are cheaper and not hypothetical)

Video games follow the software dev model. I mean most software that is packaged does not explicitly name the lead developer on title. There are exceptions like vim by B. Moolenaar.

The need is to understand quantum systems and advance our understanding of theoretical computer science.

We do not dissuade particle physicists from performing physics because some bad people want atomic bombs; We do not dissuade Archimedes from doing his thing, for the fear of better siege engines;

Routinely breaking the law and then paying fine? Jail is a good way to put routine offenders away from the civil society

> There is no contempt of court for not paying these damages.

Then how does the civil court function? If nobody follows the courts order, the court is redundantly illegitimate.

APL seems like a great language for computer graphics! Has anyone tried their hands at the same?

In the past, the power to set policy was in the hands of the few aristocrats, whose full time job was to discuss and fight over policy, while the lay people worked their fields. We fought hard to take that power from them.

Now a company asks its employees to forgo that power and liberty. Why did we take the power of policy from the aristocrats in the first place? We can of course go back to shut up, work the field peasant model and let them enjoy discussing policy for us while we produce goods.

What comes first? Your employer or your rights?

In one day, on statistcal average, ~90 overs are bowled. The day can be safely divided into 3 sessions equally. If spinners are bowling in majority, this number could extend to 100 overs per day as well.

On a strategic aspect, the players have to change their styles from slow to fast or fast to slow given these hidden limits.

The aesthetics of a 1) mobile 2) rugged 3) cryptomachine straight out of cipherpunk universe.

Test cricket is also technically limited overs, but it has immensely more strategic aspect to it spanning 5 days with 2 innings each.

Russia is still a military threat, despite their performance.

There were a lot of instances of Roman millitary in their prime performing poorly (ex Septimus Severus's wars in Caledonia) for a long period of time.

It's just 3 months of poor performance, but their potential for war is still very high.

Check out tutorials by https://iquilezles.org/

English not being my mother tongue, I used to read words as they are written (as is the norm in my language). So I did use to say de-b-t.

Can you link any source on the python scientific usage in the 90s and early 2000s? I think the dominant language in science at that time was a mishmash of MATLAB, Java, C++, FORTRAN and Perl (In Biology at least, perl was the goto glue language due to its excellent string processing capabilities)

At the time when ML craze hit, python was already very popular as a beginners language and had good numeric libraries.

Many people of STEM fields without any programming background, had their first taste of programming with python. And it caught on.

Also, the real stuff is probably written in C/C++/CUDA/ASM. Its only the interface that is python (because of its inertial popularity)

It IS fun. However you are correct in assuming that its not justified. I originally meant to convey what other cheaters feel like when they break the rules of the program.

It is rude, it is unjust, it is not fair, but it is fun for those who execute their exploits and equally unfun and frustrating for the by-standing players.

Not the parent, but the situation you described is not fun. But say, I can magically stretch my legs? Or make players not solid for a moment? That's magic from Harry Potter and that's fun.

Fun is making a computer do stuff using your skills which it was not originally mandated to do.

Then there is meta game of playing against other wizards of the world.

However, I dispise pair exploits and unskilled players using paid exploits. That's not magic.