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| Website | https://realcyber.de |
93% of Paint Splatters are Valid Perl Programs
https://www.mcmillen.dev/sigbovik/
> In this paper, we aim to answer a long-standing open problem in the programming languages community: is it possible to smear paint on the wall without creating valid Perl?
> We answer this question in the affirmative: it is possible to smear paint on the wall without creating a valid Perl program. We employ an empirical approach, using OCR software, which finds that merely 93% of paint splatters parse as valid Perl.
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At a meta level, something I find mildly interesting is how many people are writing stuff on Mastodon about how it's impossible for Mastodon to scale up without using an ad supported model (b/c server costs), it's better to have ranked feeds because most people want them, etc.
The thing I think is interesting is that the people writing this stuff, implicitly, seemingly cannot conceive of a model where the organization is not growth and profit maximizing.
Die letzten Monate sassen wir bei Twitter und haben darauf gewartet, dass die Welt an Corona oder dem 3. Weltkrieg untergeht.
Jetzt sitzen wir bei Mastodon und warten darauf, dass Twitter untergeht.