> using direct mutual recursion instead of array-stack machinery

the reason for array-stacks is using recursion can "blow the stack" i.e. has almost arbitrary failure on deeply nested pathological inputs

using recursion is going to be faster, to about the degree you bench, but there is a reason the parser you bench against doesn't use it!

i only have those two data points; but give me an older car with larger windows every. single. time.

do you still put source links in that case -- since many will click and not be able to access it?

ive lived a large part of my life in the Middle East, so my opinion of bias is formed from seeing news outlets write about situations ive lived in

> So ask yourself, which direction is the BBC bias truly happening?

i have. im not asking who is committing war crimes. im saying bias needs to be fixed -- the issues presented in the report are massive irrespective of who committed war crimes!!

and if we desire to truly and correctly ascribe war crimes, then we must start with removing bias. else we lay error ontop of error

This was not the first or last time the BBC has reported stories about starvation in Gaza without telling audiences that the person highlighted has pre-existing medical conditions that might explain their emaciated appearance

... The same programme also featured images of baby Siwar Ashour who suffered from allergies and required specialist formula. She also had a congenital oesophageal condition, which had been reported in The Guardian.

By the time of broadcast, the BBC already knew the story was out of date and that baby Siwar had received the necessary formula a week earlier, she was maintaining weight and had been discharged from hospital. None of that was revealed in the programme - meaning the BBC had broadcast another inaccurate story.

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Former ICJ President Joan Donoghue told BBC’s HardTalk programme the media had widely misinterpreted its findings. She said it was not correct to say the ICJ had ruled there was a “plausible case of genocide” in Gaza.

But a report to the EGSC flagged “numerous instances” of the phrase being used on BBC reports, analysis and live two-ways on both television and radio. It was also cited by International Editor Jeremy Bowen and on Newsnight.

The report said there were too many instances of the BBC misrepresenting the ICJ’s ruling to be listed in full.

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The strong implication in the coverage was that Israeli forces had buried hundreds of bodies at both sites prior to withdrawing from the area. The source for both stories was the Hamas controlled Gaza Civil Defence Agency. This was not reflected in the coverage.

The internal report to the EGSC flagged: “There was no independent corroboration of allegations of war crimes, including alleged evidence of summary executions, torture and bodies found with their hands tied together”.

One online story incorrectly implied a UN official had corroborated the reports of hands being tied.

It seems that the most likely explanation was the graves at both hospitals were dug by Palestinians and the people buried there had died or been killed prior to the arrival of Israel ground forces.

The EGSC was reminded that the BBC had itself reported extensively on Palestinians digging these graves at the time. These reports had topped its bulletins.

How could this then be forgotten in the subsequent BBC coverage that suggested something more sinister had occurred? The EGSC was offered no explanation.

The question becomes even more pressing when you learn the journalists responsible for the first set of stories were the same journalists who wrote the second set of stories suggesting the graves were evidence of Israeli war crimes

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some research on this: https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Ftep0000402 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8174802/

CBT (cognitive behavioural training) has been shown to be effective independent of which therapist does it. if CBT has a downside it is that it's a bit boring, and probably not as effective as a good therapist

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so personally i would say the advice of passing on people to therapists is largely unsupported: if you're that person's friend and you care about them; then be open, and show that care. that care can also mean taking them to a therapist, that is okay

it implies expressivity is the ability to constrain

it implies drawing on a page, or more broadly, every choice we make, is in equal parts a creative and destructive act

so maybe life, or human flourishing is choosing the restrictions that increase freedom of choice? it's so meta it's almost oxymoronic; concretely: we imprison people to maximize freedom; or, we punish children with the aim of setting them free from punishment

this is the same as the walk from law into grace found in Christian ethics

maybe the ultimate programming language then, provides the maximal step down that path, and this is also the most useful definition of "power"

i.e. place on people those restrictions that increase their ability to choose

planting foundations? excavator

once you specify "the job", the best tool is "the solution" to that job only. anything else is excess complexity

however if "the job" is unspecified, power is inverse to the length of "the solution"

so is constraint of power bad?

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a fascinating question

just like music can be created by both additive and subtractive synthesis; every line of code creates both a feature and a constraint on the final program

in which case power can be thought of as the ability to constrain...

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the root cause, i think, is a devaluation of truth; for "truth" in the name of partisan lines

this is so so common: "we know this is not true, but we advance it to improve our position or virtue signal etc"

this was, i think, foundational to the collapse of society at the beginning of the 1900s -- we "believe this" because we get other peoples property or otherwise advance our cause

being truthful costs us, and people are no-longer so willing to pay

the root cause of that, i would say is they have walked away from Jesus who pays his life for our benefit; only people who live like that can be trusted to tell the truth

> As if anything else mattered but a clean moral behavior

this is actually a strongly non-Christian view point: 'all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God' i.e. no morals are clean enough unless it's 100% of God (why should he accept less?). yes, our harsh moral failures, or even successes could never be enough

hence 100% humanity and divinity of Christ -- he alone provides a 100% perfect bridge, paying 100% the cost for us, one that was infinitely beyond our ability to pay

this is 100% grace, joy, freedom and surety. thanks be to him

God help us all

this is the reason guido avoids it. programs will still fail, except now without a stacktrace

that might reduce the search space enough to find an optimal play through to the start game...

that would be fun

this trend in programming culture reduces our ability to do automated error detection!

you make a good point, and a good case for crash early and crash often -- with choice of erlang style recovery, or fuzzing style hard nosed correctness enforcement

  fuzzing
  unittest
  scm
  code coverage

any more im missing?