This ought to be really easy to rectify:

Oddly enough, my 30-year-old stereo amplifier has one. I'll finally have a use for it!

1/100 the speed of compiled languages is typical for interpreted languages.

Non-ancient implementations of Java are fully compiled. Toy benchmarks and Java programs carefully written as if there were no automatic memory management (and don't call standard libraries) can run just as fast ac C code.

Java can't directly support features that depend on dynamic typing and similar flexible run-time behavior that interpreted languages. However, many Java developers sorely miss those features, so they heavily use the reflection APIs and various "beans" frameworks to work around the pre-compilable static typing. This can actually end up running *slower* than Python because many of those Java features are dog slow.

You can already get implementations of Python that do JIT compiling like Java. They often run in the ballpark of about 1/10 the speed of C.

This was actually invented by a guy sitting on a rug in the Middle East about 4000 years ago.

"For you?? ... Mmmm, I would give you the goat for twenty pieces of silver. Take or leave."

I'll summarize YouTube's "shorts" algorithm:

1. Show Waffle Iron a row of shorts
2. Waffle Iron clicks on the "Don't show these" button.
3. Print "Got it. We'll adjust your preferences."
4. Sleep(a couple of days).
5. Goto 1.

But somehow *you* cracked the secret, so the security was actually next to zero.

Yeah, the enemy would never guess that a large office building completely devoid of windows might possibly be a telephone switch.

Yeah I guess you're right. I just cut-and-pasted the stuff ;)

> It doesn't end well for the humans. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia%2F /Alien_vs._Predator_(film)

Speaking from experience, especially the ones that paid for tickets

This "feature" actually saved me quite a bit of work at a job I had a few years back. The documentation people were so afraid that anyone who was not a full-time Word expert would irrecoverably screw up the corporate branding (IOW, formatting) of their docs, they didn't want developers to directly edit them. So I was often able to get away with emailing a quick text summary to them, and they had to do all the fidgety proof reading, formatting, etc.

I don't know how they managed to get their jobs done, given that they had no real source control and mainly juggled each update amongst themselves over email and random impoossible-to-find folders on Sharepoint.

Since all the docs had the same basic layout and they were mainly trying to make them look consistent with whatever corporate branding was being promulgated that week, it could easily have been done by writing them in "markdown" and having a script that converted them directly to PDF. Or maybe even learn LaTeX. Then the docs could all be maintained and diffed in github like all the other project artifacts. I didn't even bring that up because I knew that their heads would explode.

"Anyone who believes that exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist." - Kenneth E. Boulding

Of the three "godfathers of AI", Yann LeCun is the only one who is not concerned about the dangers of AI. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.com%2Fnews%2Ftechnology-65886125

He disagrees with his fellow godfathers that AI is a risk to the human race.