Is it hard to implement? It must be forbidden to have loops in the potential call graph. So, basically no recursion, direct or indirect. In this case, compiler with global visibility can calculate maximum call stack depth.
I mean, it doesn't sound particularly hard technically, but is it too limiting for developer?
It's not so easy for the compiler if you use virtual functions (dynamic dispatch), dynamic linking, function pointers etc as the complete call graph might not be known at compile time.
Are you laughing because we lost most newspapers to garbage online news, because schools are digitalized with no benefits, because social media made us less democratic, or because fake products are sold on the most successful online stores?
For sure he underestimated the impact, but he was not /wrong/. Most things did not get replaced by computers, they were lost to computers.
Read the whole thing. Maybe there are undigested kernels of truth and foresight amongst the excrement, but on the whole, it's easily one of the worst, most unimaginative, and most dogmatically narrow-minded futurist thinkpieces to have ever been written:
> Yet Nicholas Negroponte, director of the MIT Media Lab, predicts that we'll soon buy books and newspapers straight over the Intenet. Uh, sure.
He wrote those words in 1995, a year after Amazon was founded, and just two years before its IPO.
I have read it fully now - I agree he had some rough blindspots (like requiring in person salesmen for capitalism).
But my opinion is the opposite: maybe there are some rotten pieces in the otherwise delicious meal. On the whole it's a wise piece; if perhaps too optimistic that people would evaluate fairly the (negative) value that the internet brings in some areas and stick to the better offline options. But that might be a transient state, the future is long (or so I hope).
We still (by and large) don't buy newspapers online! They're ad-funded, and the whole media industry has gone away from pay to read.
What does everyone do when we find a paywalled article? Use a site that bypasses it. We don't buy news in 2024.
We do buy books. I grant that :) I don't want to be seen as agreeing with the article wholly, but I think that predicting the future is a hard game. I'm inclined to be sympathetic towards it.
B is actually the best if you play all three at the same time.
Intransitive dice are still surprising and interesting to me, I Wonder if there are 3 such dice which are equally strong when played at the same time ?
