> binary form that cannot be recreated from scratch

Back in my day, we called it "freeware"

You have more rights over a freely licensed binary file than over a freeware file.

Is he referring to something specific with "true" iterative calculations vs. plain old iterative ones, assuming they are in some way "non-true" or less "true"? Like, avoiding i+=x in favor of ++i or something? Or maybe am I just tired today.

I think he's just saying that mutation is ok if it's something loopy, like changing the loop counter or updating some running sum. So both i+=1 and ++i are fine.

They're pissing off the non technical people now, though. We'll see how it all plays out in the next few years.

>circa 2005: Score:5, Funny on Slashdot

>circa 2025: grayed out on Hacker News

This is not Slashdot which is quite a good thing. Not that poignant humor is not always unwelcome, IMHO.

upvote :this

> That thought should terrify it

assuming it can be terrified

Heaven forbid anyone should be weird...

> Is there anyone else out there?

If I reply yes, would you believe me? Am I even replying to a "you" right now, or was it a comment posted by a call to requests.get() by some AI agent?