Not important to the technology, sure, but for someone curious about the bizarre public statements of AI companies (or EA-influenced crypto figures before them, like SBF), it does help to know who these people are and what they believe. Behind the new crop of bajillionaires that control some important aspects of our lives are some oddball philosophers (or cult/religious leaders, if you want to be less charitable). If you want the answer to "why are these rich and powerful people saying and doing these things" you need to look at who they're paying attention to and reading, even if you think their opinions are dumb or niche.
If technology companies were much less politically and economically significant, probably no one would give a shit about any of this stuff beyond forums like this.
I think there's no other way it could be. If you're not violent you get wrecked by modern pathogens and die, or become integrated somewhat into modern society and can no longer be considered "uncontacted".
As a data/serialization format (the original intended use of JSON), I think no comments is the right choice, since adding comments introduces a bunch of questions about how comments ought to be parsed into a datastructure (or if they should be sent/(de)serialized at all). But for config files the lack of comments is the wrong choice, since typically you want to explain why things are set the way they are. The lack of ordering of entries also makes total sense for data/(de)serialization, but makes no sense for a config. I think the problem is people are lazy and just want to JSON.parse() everything, and used JSON in places it doesn't belong, like config files.
Many JS toolchains will take js files as config to alleviate this problem. Which is actually nice if you ever need dynamic configs, cause that means not using some forsaken DSL. It still evaluates to JSON in the end.
Effective at what though? The article is not exactly painting a rosy picture of EIC, nor should it. More of an advertisement for laws and regulations that curtail such abuses and an educated populace that can see such a threat to their liberty.
> Effective at what though? The article is not exactly painting a rosy picture of EIC, nor should it.
The EIC overthrew a gunpowder empire with vast resources and one of the largest militaries in the world with 1,000 European soldiers and a few dozen administrators in London. There's incredible lessons in there, orthogonal to whatever you're talking about.
Tail call elimination often is part of the language semantics though, for the reason others in this thread have described. E.g. Scheme specifies when a conformant implementation is required to eliminate tail calls: https://conservatory.scheme.org/schemers/Documents/Standards...
I refuse to accept “cyber” as a noun to mean “cybersecurity”. If you use cyber as a noun, I’m assuming you mean this, regardless of context: http://cyber.urbanup.com/521436
I do think the nitpicking about this is mostly from people that want to say “my favorite language is safer than Go” which stupid and annoying.
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