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The article goes over my head by building too many arguments to sustain its case.

For me it's much simpler to articulate:

Human relationships are build on trust and mutual respect. Once that is gone, the relationship goes out the window as well and it's not coming back.

Counter intuitively, relationships between countries seem to function mostly the same way, instead of being based strictly on interest and practicality as one might expect.

Once trust is strained until it breaks, it's not going to be the same from then on.

Looks pretty amazing, especially a bit zoomed out!

The 3D/street view version is an obvious and natural progression from here, but from what I've read in your dev log, it's also probably a lot of extra work.

Yes, the main churches can only stick to the traditional interpretation. What else could they do? Anything else would be pretty much well, blasphemy.

But I think my favourite interpretation that I've heard so far is that the stories in the Bible are like the protective husk that preserves the kernel of truth. The stories are catchy and have stuck, unwittingly allowing the truth to be carried across the centuries, safely hidden in the minds of men who did not understand it, until the day comes when people grow up enough, to the point where they could crack the shell and eat the fruit.

I really like how that sounds like, but of course, there are probably not many others who see it in that light. Luckily for me, these days they don't burn heretics any more (at least where I live :)).

I'm not sure how this is accomplished, but I like the "poetic" translation a lot more than the "optimal" one.

Which reminds me, do you think it's possible that the stories in the Bible are actually mystic symbolism and "veiled truth" (like the sort of stories that you might get in a dream) and people have mistaken it for actual physical history (with which it's obviously incompatible)?

The parables of Jesus come to mind. They weren't meant to be taken literally but to teach, to get a point across.

Optimize for sweeping efficiently: NP-hard

Optimize for human satisfaction: NP-hardest

I think it's more in the spirit of playfulness, like in "don't take yourself too seriously". It's why people want to mod Minecraft and Doom for example.

Because it's fun.

I can totally understand why you wouldn't want to do this though - the plethora of incompatible lisp dialects come to mind. That's why I said it was controversial.

My controversial opinion:

If Rust were to "borrow" something from the C/C++ spirit, then disabling the borrow checker should be available as a compiler option.

As in, you're an adult: if you want it, you can have it, instead of "we know better".

I certainly hope so, but we'll see. To give an example, std::chrono::current_zone (C++20) still doesn't work on Android even to this day.

So as long as #embed isn't supported by all the 3 major compilers, I am sticking with my current embedding setup. I guess that's what I was thinking of.

That's good to know, but I've noticed it was added in C++26 and seems to be supported in GCC 15 and Clang 19, but not MSVC.

I think in a few (3-4?) years it will be safe to use, but in any case not now.

Still, good to know that it exists.

It's kind of ironic since AI can only grow by feeding on data and open source with its good intentions of sharing knowledge is absolutely perfect for this.

But AI is also the ultimate meat grinder, there's no yours or theirs in the final dish, it's just meat.

And open source licenses are practically unenforceable for an AI system, unless you can maybe get it to cough up verbatim code from its training data.

At the same time, we all know they're not going anywhere, they're here to stay.

I'm personally not against them, they're very useful obviously, but I do have mixed or mostly negative feelings on how they got their training data.

Getting an email from an AI praising you for your contributions to humanity and for enlarging its training data must rank among the finest mockery possible to man or machine.

Still, I'm a bit surprised he overreacted and didn't manage to keep his cool.