And Highlander 2.

/ No! No! There *is* no Highlander 2!

Looks like a readable python variant.

I use a standard for coding in C that *requires* the use of goto. It goes like this:

#define CHECK(fnc) { int __r = (fnc); if (__r) goto CLEANUP; }

Then define each function to have a CLEANUP: label, and surround the call of every function from within this function by CHECK(). The CLEANUP label usually has a return 0; just before it, and in most cases a return nonzero; after it. Gives you clean code that always eats up the stack in case of error.

I like clang better, recently. Nicer warnings and errors.

Has there been a correction in the article? The code in the article now prints i, making it correct.

Normal loops risk never ending.
Loops made by recursion risk ruining your stack to boot.
Recursion is mostly a hobby of mathematicians and in practice is a tool that should be used ultimately sparingly.

I have it on all my computers that run Linux and need a GUI. It could be making a bit more work of drag-and-drop in its own elements (panels etc) though.

What has become of those compression tests? Wasn't the answer to AI not (at least partially) found in the ability to compress?

It's correlated with *increased* curiosity. Hence the loss of fear.

'Amount of empathy' is a scale. People at the bottom complain about everybody else. People at the top don't understand what everybody's complaining about. Most of us are in the middle, doing both things.

"It was their dollars that created almost all of the encryption algorithms. "

Theirs, and a lot of Belgian Euros belonging to Vincent Rijmen. But other than that, yes. US Dollars.

I think you should step away from your terminal and stop using the Internet. After all, it was developed by DARPA. And DARPA also developes weapons. Go on. Be principled.

Not necessarily: to come to this point, you need two things: development quality, and auditing quality. The first to create, the second to discover, the bugs. The second is what you get plenty of, in the open source world, presumably. But you assume that an open source developer is just as good as a closed source developer. That might not necessarily be true.

I dread to think: what's the IRL equivalent of a shadow-ban?

He was just testing out to see if slashdot has started transmogrifying posts through filters yet.