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We Live In The Year 2779 From The Founding Of Rome

We live in the year AUC 2779, or AUC MMDCCLXXVIII in Roman numerals.

Ab Urbe Condita, often abbreviated as AUC, means "From The Founding Of The City". It refers to the year of the founding of Rome, which was the Epoch used in Ancient Rome.

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The funniest thing here is that all of you are complaining because you are expanding your working vocabulary xD xD xD

La previamente mencionada afrenta no es algo habitial en mi idioma, en contraposición a la posición de los angloparlantes, nosotros nos regocijamos con una tácita satisfacción al expresar la riqueza lingüística de nuestra lengua, incluso en nuestras interacciones más cotidianas.

Busca en Instagram a @pedrititox y a @yeisonsotog5 para que puedas apreciar a lo que me refiero.

Better garbage collection than current runtimes? Now this is surely rose tinted glasses, probably based on nostalgia. It had horrific performance all around. Even the now obsolete Opera browser Kestrel runtime had better JS performance, and it is obsolete because Chrome crushed it in benchmarks consistently for several years. No, there's no way Flash had the performance characteristics you mention, even less in a critical component like the garbage collector.

"Accountability" is a value on paper, not in reality. The big companies that sell services are not really accountable, and in many cases will bankrupt their customers. See Revlon with SAP. See the Bavaria Colombian brewery, also with SAP. See the 4Hana case, again with SAP. SPAR group from South Africa. See Tesla surviving by cancelling their SAP deployment. It seems I have spotted a pattern here.

It is a very obvious thing in UNIX world. This should not happen, no matter if it's Cursor or VIM or whatever program you are using. So, yes, it is a serious issue, and it's more of a Windows fuckup than Cursor itself. It's basic OS behaviour that's been fixed in UNIX for decades. You want to run a program in the current folder, you write ./program, everyone know this.

Isn't this the oldest kind of vulnerabilities corrected on UNIX several decades ago? The current directory is not in the PATH, period. This is also a bug on Windows only, so to me this is more a Windows issue than a Cursor issue, unless there's some logic in Windows that is doing the same as UNIX has done for decades. Given the "fix" involves ACL and a complex workaround that's not really a fix, I stay in my position this is more a Windows fuckup than something particular to Cursor.

I love that in the Spanish cyberspace the tendency is to use more sophisticated and rich vocabulary, and it is common to point out obvious errors. If you understand Spanish, check out pedrititox B-)

They are not randomly guessing, they are doing something more sofisticated: they are correlating gameplay with the evidence of board wear.

They are creating a probability distribution function where each point is a different gameplay ruleset and then we are free to pick the gameplay ruleset with the highest probability, with the caveat that there are other similar gameplays, with slightly different rules, and almost the same probability. And there are other gameplay rules with much lower probability because they don't match the wear of the board.

A random guess would have a flat distribution where any gameplay has the same probability.

There's one standard library now, it has great C/C++ interop, and the language features make more sense to me than C++, go, rust, Java, even Python.

If Rust is gaining popularity because it is an alternative to C++, D-lang needs to be included into that conversation, IMO.

There's a huge difference between "asking and AI" meaning a prompt to a LLM, and very particular simulation fine tuned to this problem where the evaluation criteria is matching the exact wear found in the real boards. This work is much closer to a numerical simulation than anything you can call AI.

True, this is the best we can get and archaeology is full of speculation. It is still a very, very reasonable speculation, probably 95% accurate. You can thank the ones who burned the Biblioteca of Alexandria for most of the loss of actual information.