The point of the article is about how IDE's can't validate certain things as you type them in this order. The example of a string length function could be replaced by any other API.
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Here's an actual example, or at least one that's close: Richard Stallman.
He's not likely implicated personally, but Marvin Minsky (a pioneer AI researcher at MIT) is, and Stallman said some pretty terrible things in support of him. Stallman was removed as head of the FSF because of it.
Without any evidence of anything beyond saying bad things in support of Minsky, I don't think it needs to go beyond that. But if he were fully implicated, I would 100% still support releasing the Epstein Files.
Showing solidarity. If you don't think that's important, then you have some reading to do on the history of protest movements.
The unsophisticated solution is to map the file extension to the MIME type, which is done by default much of the time. If you do anything else, then we need to have a conversation about how.
How long back? IEEE 754 floating point was released the same year as Excel v1, and it'd be a while before there was hardware support. Floating point numbers were often dodgey back then on just about everything.
I mean that bubbles will happen somewhere else.
What's the difference between interpreted and compiled?
Which is bad and wrong. Postel's law has been considered a bad idea by Postel himself for a while. We shouldn't let such fuzziness go through.
I need a big truck in case I need to haul wood from Home Depot once or twice a year, because that's worst case scenario. It needs to be an EV with 1000 mile range, because that's worst case scenario. And I need to make enough to live in Silicon Valley, because that's worst case scenario.
Literally anything.
Files extensions are an old DOS thing that's still in Windows. Unix-derived stuff never really cared, at least not in the same way.
What actually matters is the MIME type set in the HTTP headers, which is "image/png" for png. Traditionally, the file extension is mapped to a MIME type, because that makes things easy for everyone, but nothing says it has to be that way.
I disliked the second one specifically because they gave it a decent budget. The original is genius for how it does so much with so little.
The third is an oddball. Made-for-TV budget and quality. It's interesting for fans of the series, but nothing special.
I just put together a mechanical clock from a lasercut wood kit. Not particularly accurate, and you have to wind it every once in a while. I don't even have it working properly because the drive train seems to have too much friction with the current placement. But it looks really cool with all the gears exposed.