I updated to version 10.5.7 and now I see Samsung ads in my peripheral vision, wtf

You're the lucky one... they're a/b testing this and I get them flashing full size for a half second twice a day. I've tried blocking them at the firewall but their AI is so good now it can hack that in a couple of seconds, and they're using what I've seen as input to their bypass. It won't be long before we won't be able to turn it off at all. Joe Jackson saw it coming...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgqwdYAmoFQ

I am now nicotine addicted without smoking a single cigarette.

It’s available for purchase from multiple sellers, from bookshop.org to Amazon.

Zig could include the file at compile-time with @embedFile.

So could Go (https://pkg.go.dev/embed), Rust (https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/macro.include_str.html) and a number of other languages in the set.

this would provide the optimizer the unfair chance to replace the entire application with a compile time constant

The idea of using a file is to force the program to use that number as an unknown value at compile time.

command line arguments would be unknown at compile time.

You graciously omitted the article’s follow-on conclusion: the public is being gently trolled.

“On the other hand, at a time when trust in the honest intentions of experts is at a low, it may be unwise for experts to troll the public.”

Yes, Dead Internet Theory went from joke to reality in what feels like overnight.

The usual goal of professional propaganda - of disinformation - is to paralyze, to prevent constructive communication, discourse, progress.

Was it a joke?

Am I to mourn the loss of what I personally consider one of the worst manipulative toxins to ever exist?

Thanks AI.

It was never a joke because bots are older than AI

The ring runs a JVM in hardware.

On a 8051 microcontroller afaik with some crypto acceleration. Stuff like Jazelle came couple of years later.

Yeah, Sceptre's site shows a bunch of dumb TVs that max out at HDMI 2.0, 4K/60Hz. Basically, they are ten years out of date.

There are still annoyances. Our TV finds every opportunity to send you to its home screen of apps, requiring me to reset the input to the PS5 that we use for Netflix etc. And regardless, I don't want to pay for a lousy customised Android with a bunch of crappy apps preinstalled.

“Compressible rodent” was not a phrase I thought I’d ever hear but I’m glad I did. Worth the price of a couple of coffees.

That’s what the article is about.

No it's not. The article proposes the idea of a language designed for vibe-coding, and suggests several variants designed for specific purposes. But none of the variants are for the purpose I suggested, which is about maximizing correctness. That's the point I was making.