Meat-eating and political apathy. Few people are vegetarians at this point in history, and activism tends to attract defective personalities.

If it sounds like I must be a misanthropic bastard that hates everyone, unfortunately, yeah, I think I do at this point.

They don’t prevent it, they just don’t implement it. A real (physical) CPU is a fixed electrical circuit and can’t just divide in two the way it would have to for the ideal mathematical version of recursion. If you want a simple way to visualise this, how would you implement recursion (as opposed to just loops) on a Turing machine with tapes?

Different CPUs might have strategies to approximate certain kinds of recursion, but at some point my own knowledge ends, and there has been many different designs. Tail recursion in particular is usually just turned back into a loop at the compiler, and typical modern architectures implement a call stack at the hardware level, which allows you to do limited-depth recursion, but breaks like in OP if you try to go too deep.

I didn’t know Melbourne was in Florida.

Bonus points if you’re saving it as an .odt and still producing a validly executable file of some kind

Yeah, if you had really bad locality of reference I imagine that would be very helpful.

An actual compsci professor would know real CPUs don’t run arbitrary recursion, right? Nobody could possibly be that siloed.

Me too. I’m still not sure what the problem is and I’m kind of afraid to ask.

I do have the plugin for multi-line editing set up, I guess.

It’s possible I haven’t reached it yet, being in my late 20’s. At least after the rest of my chest hair grew in sometime in the early 20’s. Furry nipples on a bare chest looks really dumb.

So many stories Americans have written on here and Reddit contradict that.

Either way, socially forced is not the country itself forcing it.

Okay, sure. So what?

Legally it’s not required, socially it basically is, and there’s real costs to going against that.

So, you’re technically right, maybe. It’s still not normal for a democracy.

Welp, that is a pretty legit-looking counterexample to the Trump administration helping farmers. I still stand by what I wrote, though. The countryside is red and bird flu is causing the egg shortage.

I’ve seen things like this posted several times on here. It always turns out it doesn’t actually catch all the possible problems, or it’s garbage collected, or it’s non-usable for real code.

If it was that easy, the people who wrote Rust with all it’s complexity and divergence from the norm were idiots, and I really don’t think they were.

C/C++ is mildly obsolete now, basically. Breaking the memory model is not really a small defect that’s a matter of taste.

Bird flu talk sounds a little too close to vaccine talk, and farmers vote Republican.

Yes. Freedom can be used for good or bad. I assume the lecturer was talking about crypto being used mostly in crime, which happens because it’s not controlled by an institution that can confiscate it.

The way it’s phrased here makes freedom look good, but don’t forget it actually means there’s valid arguments for limiting freedom just as much as for limiting control. You have to get into a lot more detail to really get anywhere.

I would suspect the original lecture went into more detail.

I’m sad I missed that, actually.

Dr Strangelove parodying atomic terror movies like Fail Safe

I legit didn’t know it was parodying something else. I thought it was just gallows humour.

Nobody watches the other airliner movies, but at least with Airplane! you know you’re watching a parody.

Edit: Per other people in this thread, apparently not.

It’d be half-and-half. That’s being easy going with Quebec though, right? /s

The close cultural affinity gives us better insight. Europeans seem to see Americans through Hollywood. We see them shopping at Walmart.