That can't build the Linux kernel though.

They drugged and executed Fred Hampton and no one suffered any consequences for that as far as I know.

I don't think the idea is that the speech in the chat is inherently illegal; it's that it could be used as evidence of illegal activity. Using that example - if someone in the chat asks about plate XYZ at 10AM, and if a phone linked to "Bob" posts to the group chat at 10:04 AM that license plate XYZ is used by ICE, and the internal logs show that Bob queried the ICE database about plate XYZ at 10:02 AM, and no one else queried that license plate in the past month, that is pretty good evidence that Bob violated the CFAA.

> French culture is a rare culture where shop owners won't be afraid to tell off/talk back at customers that don't show a basic level of politeness.

My favorite French shop anecdote (I'm American): Went to a bakery in Paris. Tried to order "Un croissant, s'il vous plaît". Shopkeeper responded (in very lightly accented English) with "I'm sorry, I don't understand what you're saying". I wasn't mad or offended, in fact it's one of my favorite memories from the trip.

The French's and their language is a funny one. We constantly get French tourists here in Spain who approach you and try to talk to you in French, assuming somehow because you live in the North of Spain of course you'd understand at least the basics of French.

I'm sure it happens in a lot of places around borders though, not sure that's unique to the French.

Bonjour monsieur, je voudrais une eclair chocolate s'il vous plait is my number one French phrase. I can usually sell it. Maybe you needed the prefixes?

Did you ever get your croissant in that shop?

I did! Had to ask for it in English though.

In what world are Iraq / Afghanistan good "comps" for the US military's performance in a civil war? Those countries had a virtually endless supply of young men who wanted to die for their cause, due to religious fanaticism, and were willing to do anything to make that happen. Who is going to fulfill that role in this hypothetical civil war? The US military was also faced with 10,000 km long supply lines and extremely rugged terrain where no one had any local knowledge.

Wouldn't C# and Swift make it tough to integrate with other languages? Whereas something written in Zig (or Rust) can integrate with anything that can use the C ABI?

Both c# and swift have first party c abi integration

Two weeks of actual work? Or two weeks because you'd only be able to work on it for 20-30 minutes per day at the end of the day when you're already tired?

The latter of course! It's a whole new world of possibilities

Can this also affect stack usage? Like if `x` gets dropped before `y` is introduced, can `y` reuse `x`'s stack space (let's assume they are same size/alignment). Or does the compiler already do that if it can see that one is not used after the other is introduced?

Conceivably, yes.

> I never understood there is a relationship between quadratic equations and some kind of underlying mathematic geometric symmetry.

In a polynomial equation, the coefficients can be written as symmetric functions of the roots: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vieta%27s_formulas - symmetric means it doesn't matter how you label the roots, because it would not make sense if you could say "r1 is 3, r2 is 7" and get a different set of coefficients compared to "r1 is 7, r2 is 3".

Since the coefficients are symmetric functions of the roots, that means that you can't write the roots as a function of the coefficients - there's no way to break that symmetry. This is where root extraction comes in - it's not a function. A function has to return 1 answer for a given input, but root extraction gives you N answers for the nth root of a given input. So that's how we're able to "choose" roots - consider the expression (r1 - r2) for a quadratic equation. That's not symmetric (the answer depends on which one we label as r1 and which we label as r2), so we can't write that expression as a function of the coefficients. But what about (r1 - r2)^2? That expression IS symmetric - you get the same answer regardless of how you label the roots. If we expand that out we get r1^2 - 2r1r2 + r2^2, which is symmetric, which means we can write it as a function of the coefficients. So we've come up with an expression whose square root depends on the way we've labeled the roots (using Vieta's formulas you can show it's b^2-4c, which you might recognize from the quadratic equation).

Galois theory is used to show that root extraction can only break certain types of symmetries, and that fifth degree polynomials can exhibit root symmetries that are not breakable by radicals.

The Gehry story is cool but you skipped over the important part.