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Oh yes, thank you for saying that. We seem to be the only ones here that don't like this. I have a 2K screen, please let me see more content, not less on it.

I agree. The other day, I had to write a 1-page project proposal for a PhD scholarship and they were giving the font to use and its size, and the margins. I had almost no mathematical symbol to use. One of the professors said that it looks unprofessional to not use Latex. I mean, I could have use Latex and I would have looked like exactly the same given the requirements. I just did it in LibreOffice because that was really the simplest I could have done.

creators have rights that can not be removed (not even voluntarily) before that.

Doesn't that defeat the purpose of licenses? The principle of a license is exactly giving up rights on copyrighted work.

it is better to rely on ML than on low-quality theory.

Isn't ML (and especially deep learning i.e. neural networks) itself a low-quality theory? From what I understand, nobody really knows why it works so well but uses it anyway.

There is nothing about: part of speech categories, relative clauses, morphology, affixes or compound words, the theta criterion, the content/function distinction, verb tenses, agreement, or anything else related to actual linguistic phenomena.

When you learned you native tongue, you didn't need to know all of these. You just learned. So, maybe the problem IS about math and algorithms instead of linguistics.

Yeah sure but at that point, it's more optimization than algorithm design. Of course, with any algorithm, you always have the hidden constant that you must account for. Also, what I was saying does not apply to the entier CS field. It only applies when you try to design an algorithm for a problem that does not yet have an efficient algorithm. I don't have much experience but I don't think it is really hard to see the cost of the hidden constant in most algorithms.

I mean, if a paper gives an algorithm, proves its correctness, and you are convinced by the proofs, then you're done. I don't see how implementing the algorithm gives you more insight. I'm doing my master degree in computational geometry and most people in my lab don't even implement their algorithms. They just know they are correct from their proofs.

- can this thing detect certain apps like FileZilla and then say "user entered <FTP site creds>" and send individual fields, and is that what is meant by supporting say FTP and FileZilla?

FileZilla simply use a file in your personnal directory to store passwords exactly like your browser too.

Do you even know of the equalization payments are calculated? Also, back 20 years ago and before, it was Québec that was paying the equalization payments to Alberta and the western provinces.

We are on a thread about maple syrup and you're speaking about language laws and corruption in the construction industry. I can't see how you would not consider that bashing.

derailed by a bunch of terrorist lunatics in the 70s.

Do you mean the FLQ?

The same regionalism plays out across the country, but their "leaders" just have the benefit of a language barrier to maintain their position and fables.

What do you mean by that?

You're downvoted but you're right. There are laws that protect the federation. If people really didn't want that, the laws would be abolished.

As for the infrastructure, I'd posit that crappy infrastructure at high costs is largely due to corrupt politicians (ever hear of another place where money played too big a role in electoral campaigns?) and construction companies being run by the mafia [2].

To add on that, people always think Québec is more corrupt than anywhere else because of a number of events in the last years, but I'm quite sure this is not unique to Quebec and you have the same phenomena everywhere else. We only heard about corruption in Quebec because people were interested to investigate.