I used to get a physical security key from my bank. Perhaps I should get a bank device with a touch screen for banking only and they could then stay the hell off of my personal phone.
German filmmaker Christian Petzold often gets some flak for his ambiguous endings, but it's amusing that he actually follows European cinema tradition. It's his audience (even in Europe) that got more used to neat, fully wrapped endings from American media.
Heck, when Satya Nadella wanted to demonstrate Copilot coding, he had it emit an Altair emulator. I guess there's little room for creativity in 8-bit emulator design so LLMs can handle them well. https://thenewstack.io/from-basic-to-vibes-microsofts-50-yea...
This is a good point. I wonder how much NES emulator code is in Claude's training set? Not to knock what the author has done here, but I wonder if this is more of a softball challenge than it looks.
> This, along with the fact that salaries are absurdly low, shows a lack of interest by the Brazilian government, people, and industry, in the development of science in this country.
No, it shows that the country is poor - the desire to pay higher salaries was always there, but it's hard. People in rich countries think money grows on trees because for them, it kind of does.
And this is why development advice from "intellectuals" in rich countries is worthless.
As a Brazilian, I believe the problem is that we have a culture of "gratitude" towards the government. We quietly and silently thank God that we received whatever benefit and pray that they will keep giving us that. But a tiny bit of economical education, and an open eye to the frequent corruption scandals teaches one that there is more than enough money for a decent salary for academic workers.
I read an interesting article once that mentioned, the worst thing that can happen to your country is that it sits on a large supply of rare resources.
You'd think it would make you rich; instead it makes you miners, and ripe for invasion.
The Resource Curse. It’s not a given, but it’s a dangerous pitfall that must be avoided. England had coal. Norway has oil. If you don’t have strong institutions, someone will take control of it, like modern Russia for instance.
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