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Nobody would say „trujący wąż” (poisonous snake) or „jadowity grzyb” (venomous mushroom). The distinction is similar to English. There are exceptions and contexts where it can be used interchangeably but arguably the same is true for English.

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The primary use case that I can see is following: you use your second phone — the communicator — to chat, while watching endless stream of tiktoks/reels/shorts on the first one.

It’s less simple than many systems languages because it has a very strong type system.

I don’t think that’s the case, somehow most ML derived languages ended up with stronger type system and cleaner syntax.

In this case there is both time a distance limit to the gesture. If the gesture is too fast the switcher won’t appear even if the distance was long enough.

That said, personally I’ve always found the gesture navigation very intuitive.

To be honest the implementation looks surprisingly readable… at least compared to other horrors like the standard library implementation.

While there are some new rules regarding arguments naming, the new syntax doesn’t feel more complex than the default lambda syntax.

So all in all I would say the most horrifying thing here is the fact that the language allows such extensions in the first place ;)

Cathedral 3-D (https://store.steampowered.com/app/1091590/Cathedral_3D/). It's a retro-ish FPS, basically an arena shooter where you have to survive incoming waves of enemies.

It's using my custom game engine, that was developed from scratch in C, the only dependencies are SDL2 and OpenGL. The engine and game were developed for the last 6 or so years (with breaks) in the evenings/weekends as my evergreen side project. The game was released last Halloween. I still support the game with patches after the release (both new features and fixes), one of them is expected to come out very soon. And to be honest I plan to do so in coming years. I was fun to develop and still is.

While it's true that there are some artifacts, I think that they can be mitigated with some tricks like: avoiding sudden head movements by the actor or artificially decreasing the quality of the video. Low quality photos of big foot entertained people for years.

I generally agree though that with time we will learn to see red flags like this and treat video as probably fake.

With deep fakes easily available I believe the pornographic video material ultimately will have the same weight as a rumor, it's somewhat true for photos today. We definitely need a common way to propagate trusted information, but keeping videos as absolutely trustworthy is not possible anymore.