i had ubuntu on my laptop, at some point I had to upgrade the distribution, as apt-get stopped working on an older version - and upgrade failed. Nowadays windows 11 is much less bothersome, we got WSL - windows subsystem for linux, so i can have the same linux in a command line on windows.

... until the owners of Slashdot will manage to modernize the code of slashdot with the help of AI :-)

Will LLM hallucinations sill be a thing?

Just search 'Sci-Fi Short Film' on youtube, there are tons of shorter films (usually everyone is dead around there, my guess is that this makes them cheaper to produce, but some of them are quite neat)

twenty five years ago you would take a 3.5 inch floppy disk, open it up and use the magnetic disk as a sun glass for that purpose. (suddenly makes me feel old...)

Now that's because of Trusted Platform Module ; in order to support this DRM feature , each new windows PC has a chip on it that can override part of the OS. Now the German government thinks that this DRM features is also a Troyan horse that allows some agencies unlimited access to the PC ; now the Chinese government thinks the same. Too bad for Microsoft. Also see this article here for more info: http://news.techworld.com/secu...

Multiple choice voting could make things different- if the guy who gets the most approvals is supposed to be the President, number for the Secretary of the Treasury, number three for Secretary of Defense and so on; This way the voter could choose a government composed of people holding different views; However politicians would object to this system ;-) the top guy would not have the powers to nominate his friends. Another problem is that this system is not very flexible; no way to perform a cabinet shakeup without voting anew. Also you might end up with poor choices - the guy who would be good for defense might not be the best choice for treasury ;-)

>if you bend your opinion and your words just enough, you can appeal to even more
>and if you lie in such a way that you don't really stand for anything at all but make everyone think you stand for their opinion, then you can appeal to most
>everyone

The candidate still has to appeal to the most number of people, even with multiple choice votes. I wonder how multiple choice voting system could make the candidates behave in honest ways ?

Please take a look at my side project - the Pooh programming language It is supposed to be a simple but modern language designed for teaching; Some of the features:

• Does not force to introduce OO concepts from the start; non strict OO viewpoint.
• Makes flow visible by tracing of the program flow; the -x command line option instructs the interpreter to trace each statement and evaluation results + intermediate values.
• A focus on readability and clarity in syntax and semantics
  • no statement delimiters - no semicolons
  • all function parameters are passed as named parameters;
  • all variables declared in function are local;
• Variable must be defined before use, similar to strict mode in Perl; variable is defined if value is assigned to a name.
• The language has closures and can do objects by prototyping; has higher order functions like map/fold/filter .
• If a non local variable is referenced, then it must have the prefix outer . ; references to global variables from a function must have prefix global . ; object member references must have prefix this .
• the Pooh language has green threads / co-routines / generators like Lua; so there are nice for loops like in Python. The local variety of this idea is called Pooh routine.

Thank you for your attention.

Please take a look at my side project - the Pooh programming language

It is supposed to be a simple but modern language designed for teaching . Here is a list of the main features:

• Does not force to introduce OO concepts from the start; variables like strings/lists/hashes are not objects; this is the non strict OO viewpoint.
• Makes flow visible by tracing of the program flow; the -x command line option instructs the interpreter to trace each statement and evaluation results + intermediate values.
• A focus on readability and clarity in syntax and semantics
  • no statement delimiters - no semicolons
  • all function parameters are passed as named parameters;
  • all variables declared in function are local;
• Variable must be defined before use, similar to strict mode in Perl; variable is defined if value is assigned to a name.
• The language has closures and can do objects by prototyping; has higher order functions like map/fold/filter .
• If a non local variable is referenced, then it must have the prefix outer . ; references to global variables from a function must have prefix global . ; object member references must have prefix this .
• the Pooh language has green threads / co-routines / generators like Lua; so there are nice for loops like in Python. The local variety of this idea is called Pooh routine.

Thank you for your attention.