For example, a 'native compiler' outputs machine code for the host system, a 'cross compiler' outputs machine code for a different system, a 'bytecode compiler' outputs a custom binary format (e.g. VM instructions), and a 'transpiler' outputs source code. These distinctions are meaningful.

You can do that using differential forms as well - using the co-differential δ, we can write a single equation (δ + d)F = J. However, from the perspective of Yang-Mills theory, that's a rather questionable approach as we're stitching together the Bianchi identity and the Yang-Mills equation for no particular reason...

There are also concerns with regard to civil liberties such as spying on their customers out of self-interest and on behalf of the US government, cooperating with authoritarian regimes such as China or their participation in Trusted Computing. Also note that while nowadays, just like many other tech companies, Microsoft might get criticized as being 'woke' by people with a certain political outlook, in the late 2000s, they were throwing people off xbox live for mentioning being gay in their profiles (or just having the surname 'Gaywood', for that matter).

[1] https://asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.2449...

< 47k years: radiation-dominated era

< 9.8G years: matter-dominated era

> 9.8G years: dark-energy-dominated era

Cf the last paragraph of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_volume

Observations indicate that the expansion of the universe is accelerating, and the Hubble constant is thought to be decreasing. Thus, sources of light outside the Hubble horizon but inside the cosmological event horizon can eventually reach us. A fairly counter-intuitive result is that photons we observe from the first ~5 billion years of the universe come from regions that are, and always have been, receding from us at superluminal speeds.

No love for Euclidean division?

Basically, there's no free lunch. Personally, I prefer truncating integer division in combination with a pair of remainder operators.

(it's actually a reference to the Parable of the Pearl, but that name clashed with PEARL, a real-time programming language from the 70s developed in Germany)

Instead of popping up an alert, you could have requested the deletion of all files in the cloud storage.

It very well can:

For example, let's assume you have a graphics editor running in the browser that stores files in the cloud. If it uses a vulnerable C library to decode image data, an attacker might be able to play havoc with your files despite the sandbox never technically having been breached.

This can be mitigated by either using a safe language, or having the decoder run in an isolated wasm instance. Either way, you have to design your application with these considerations in mind and can't just take arbitrary, potentially vulnerable applications, compile them to wasm and be done with it.

For example, if you corrupt a program that's allowed to use web sockets, you'll be able to port scan the user's local network.

[1] https://llvm.org/docs/ExceptionHandling.html#sjlj-intrinsics

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