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The "right to copy" is a made up concept. Just sayin'...

we would be elephants or whales? (sorry couldn't resist)


We already know that Cetaceans are the superior intellectual life form of the planet.

Toss a naked man in the sea and see how he fares.


About as well as a beached whale, I'd expect.


Loyalty is one of the strongest qualities of Spaniards. Or curses. Depends on the occasion I guess. But the saying "ser más papista que el papa" (to be more pro-pope than the pope himself) is not said by chance in Spain.


"More Catholic than the pope," I believe that may also mean, referring not to loyalty but to intolerably unctuous and hypocritical sanctimony.

We do have that expression in this language, and "papist" is one of the old anti-Catholic (anti-Irish, anti-Italian, anti-Latin) slurs that actually survives, however deracinated, to the present.

One example of the sort of such slurs that did not survive is 'mackerel-snapper,' deriving from the pre-Vatican II meat fast observed on Fridays, which is also what first put a fish sandwich on McDonald's menu.


Idk. Anarchy was a very big movement in Spain unlike in the rest of Europe. But its also true that there are some cultural values related to family that are also common in other mediterranean cultures that arent there in northern countries. What I find is being such a social culture, the population itself feels more homogenous in its ideas


In the age of spaghetti-mixed Web Components, remember kids you can still be good with yourselves and properly split your Web Apps into individual CSS, JS, and HTML templates files, even going framework-less.

Keep the Zen Torch on.


If? never been married, right? PS. You may think of your credit card as your "venom", so you won't get eat alive in a divorce process lol


Hope this law doesn't become into a peasant-trap. But my gut is telling me that... that's exactly what it is. ("This and that is forbidden EXCEPT to us because blah blah blah")


That’s what nearly all UE regulation is. Most of these regulators are on the payroll of 200 year old companies who maintain their control of the economy by preventing any real challengers from rising.


These challenges are funny - they remind me of the old days. Back in the DOS/Windows days, we used to have the .com format, which was perfect for tiny programs. One could even write a program of less than 10 bytes that could actually do something!

We've come a long way since then, and is like, at some point, nobody cared about optimizing executable size anymore


People in the embedded space care. Symbian OS was compiled for small size, only certain parts were allowed use O3, such as the jpeg decoder.


Some people care about executable size, (mostly) everyone else ships Electron apps.


Tell it to my boss, he wants his app last week.


I learned to write COM programs at some point but quickly unlearned it. There were some spots where you can use them and not .bat files, but outside of that it’s a lot.


  debug
  -a 100
  178A:0100 int 19
  178A:0102
  -r cx
  CX 0000
  :2
  -n reboot.com
  -w
  Writing 00002 bytes
  -q


Some more:

Quick'n'dirty:

    .model small
    .code
     org 100h
    start:
     int 19h                 ; Bootstrap loader
    end start
More "correct":

    .model small
    .code
     org 100h
    start:
     db 0EAh                 ; Jump to Power On Self Test - Cold Boot
     dw 0,0FFFFh
    end start
Even more "correct":

    .model small
    .code
     org 100h
    start:
     mov ah,0Dh
     int 21h                 ; DOS Services  ah=function 0Dh
                             ;  flush disk buffers to disk
     sti                     ; Enable interrupts
     hlt                     ; Halt processor
     mov al,0FEh
     out 64h,al              ; port 64h, kybd cntrlr functn
                             ;  al = 0FEh, pulse CPU reset
    end start


Great example, a two bytes reboot utility. From the times when we could turn off the computer with a push of a button without fearing a global catastrophe...


JMP FFFF:0000


INT 13h... uff chills


2023: Our tiny model blah blah blah beats GPT4!

2024: Our tiny model blah blah blah beats Claude!

2025: Our tiny model blah blah blah beats ???


Haha, yes it is a pattern. However, the claim here is that "our tiny model beats best model" is applicable for highly specific tasks.


... DeepSeek?


We are not in control either of the nukeclear power which is available for quite a few nations, since a lot of decades now, as well. Soo... c'mon cheer up most probably is some kind of simulation anyway.


Disagreed. 1/0 should be infinity, and computers should be able to handle these concepts. Just look into what is 1/0.00000000000[etc]1. And no is not an error, you find out with a very real and tangible example, when you are developing a 3D engine and you want to make the camera to look at vector [ 0, 0, 0 ]. Quick resume: You can't, you need to force add a slight displacement so you can skip this silly error.


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