The cat is out of the bag. Crypto and its application is an academic subject now, with plenty of companies and open-source projects using the fruit of the work. That is to say, for another ten-fifteen years or so. Then, quantum will start taking it all apart. The amateurs will not have the resources to follow there.

In America, cooperations do this.

I see someone dusted off this old boondoggle again.

This is not about a workplace situation. This is a about doing volunteer work. You know, the environment that requires a little begging from the person who initiates it. Something about making sure you're not excluding somebody who might otherwise turn in great work. Because you're not *paying* them, you're kindly asking them if they want to do something for you in their spare time.

Well, one of the reasons of cybermageddon could be two gangs having at each other.

Typical American attitude: we can't do it, so nobody must be able to do it. Also: 'grammatical sentences' ?

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.