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Wilson’s Algorithm gives the most pleasing visual results for me.

For me it's much simpler to articulate:

Human relationships are build on trust and mutual respect. Once that is gone, the relationship goes out the window as well and it's not coming back.

Counter intuitively, relationships between countries seem to function mostly the same way, instead of being based strictly on interest and practicality as one might expect.

Once trust is strained until it breaks, it's not going to be the same from then on.

The 3D/street view version is an obvious and natural progression from here, but from what I've read in your dev log, it's also probably a lot of extra work.

But I think my favourite interpretation that I've heard so far is that the stories in the Bible are like the protective husk that preserves the kernel of truth. The stories are catchy and have stuck, unwittingly allowing the truth to be carried across the centuries, safely hidden in the minds of men who did not understand it, until the day comes when people grow up enough, to the point where they could crack the shell and eat the fruit.

I really like how that sounds like, but of course, there are probably not many others who see it in that light. Luckily for me, these days they don't burn heretics any more (at least where I live :)).

Which reminds me, do you think it's possible that the stories in the Bible are actually mystic symbolism and "veiled truth" (like the sort of stories that you might get in a dream) and people have mistaken it for actual physical history (with which it's obviously incompatible)?

The parables of Jesus come to mind. They weren't meant to be taken literally but to teach, to get a point across.

Optimize for human satisfaction: NP-hardest

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46017175

But I couldn't say how many people it cured of reading the news so far.

Because it's fun.

I can totally understand why you wouldn't want to do this though - the plethora of incompatible lisp dialects come to mind. That's why I said it was controversial.

If Rust were to "borrow" something from the C/C++ spirit, then disabling the borrow checker should be available as a compiler option.

As in, you're an adult: if you want it, you can have it, instead of "we know better".

So as long as #embed isn't supported by all the 3 major compilers, I am sticking with my current embedding setup. I guess that's what I was thinking of.

I think in a few (3-4?) years it will be safe to use, but in any case not now.

Still, good to know that it exists.

But AI is also the ultimate meat grinder, there's no yours or theirs in the final dish, it's just meat.

And open source licenses are practically unenforceable for an AI system, unless you can maybe get it to cough up verbatim code from its training data.

At the same time, we all know they're not going anywhere, they're here to stay.

I'm personally not against them, they're very useful obviously, but I do have mixed or mostly negative feelings on how they got their training data.

Still, I'm a bit surprised he overreacted and didn't manage to keep his cool.

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I take this to mean: look at how others do it, find what works for you and then do that.

1. "Do as the priest says not as he does"

2. "It is far easier for me to teach twenty what were right to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching."

So now that you know what must be done, go out and do it, if you can. If not, teach it to others.

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