That's what I meant. I also tried to provide one justification (out of many) for why looking at other foundations is still useful.

To be fair, you might know all of that, but I wanted to highlight this. LLMs are a lot less efficient than regular expressions wherever both are applicable, simply because everything is less efficient than regular expressions.

* By constant memory, I mean that the memory usage has a maximum value independent of the size or the contents of the input bytestring.

Neologisms are cringe, but demeaning men is as well.

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* - https://parentheticallyspeaking.org/articles/bicameral-not-h...

† - https://docs.racket-lang.org/shrubbery/index.html?fam=Rhombu...

- Python's native integer handling, which already has no size limit.

- PLUS part of the Decimal module in Python's stdlib: BC's floats are DECIMAL by default, not binary.

- PLUS an implementation of Bessel's J function, while neglecting Bessel's K.

- Some features for base conversion using `ibase` and `obase`. So, I suppose you can output numbers to base 60. [EDIT: Correction from earlier: ibase is allowed to be at most 16, while POSIX allows for the maximum value of obase to be at least 99, which therefore does allow for formatting output to base 60.]

  me@localhost:~> bc
  d=1; for(i=21; i < 41; i++){d *= i;}; print d; print "\n";
  335367096786357081410764800000
  n = 1; for(i = 1; i < 21; i++){n *= i;}; print n; print "\n";
  2432902008176640000
  d/n;
  137846528820

* - What it does contain is sine, cosine, exponential, log, arctan, and Bessel J (?!?!?!?!)

Most other "knowledge" professions -- by which I mean teaching, programming, some engineering, and the arts -- are even further along into obsolescence. That said, you can still use the knowledge gained in a knowledge profession to convert into a more hands-on profession. We might have a bit longer before humanoid robots destroy all hands-on job opportunities as well. Once that happens, every person will be equally poor and destitute.

If Israel was going to kill tens of thousands of people, it had an obligation to have a plan which wasn't completely stupid. I don't see what WASN'T stupid about it.

The reason for Israel's invasion of Lebanon in 1982:

Israel said it invaded Lebanon in June 1982 to stop PLO attacks from southern Lebanon and push Palestinian fighters far enough north to protect northern Israel.† The immediate trigger was the attempted assassination of Israel’s ambassador in London, Shlomo Argov. But that attack was carried out by the Abu Nidal group (based in Iraq), not the PLO, and Israel used it as the opening for a much broader war: destroying the PLO’s power in Lebanon, besieging Beirut, weakening Syrian influence, and trying to install a friendly Lebanese government. So, bluntly: there was a real security problem, but the 1982 invasion was also a war of choice and political engineering, not just self-defense.

† Right before the June 1982 invasion, the "they were shelling Galilee" line is weak: even the IDF says that after the July 1981 Habib ceasefire, "from July 1981 to June 1982, the Israeli-Lebanese border was quiet."

What does this word mean in the year 2026?