Multiocular O (ꙮ) is a unique glyph variant found in a single 15th-century manuscript (thereby a hapax legomenon), in the Old Church Slavonic phrase серафими многоꙮчитїи (abbreviated мн̑оꙮ҆читїи̑; serafimi mnogoočitii, 'many-eyed seraphim').
The character was proposed for inclusion into Unicode in 2007 and incorporated as character U+A66E in Unicode version 5.1 (2008). The representative glyph had seven eyes and sat on the baseline. However, in 2021, following a tweet highlighting the character, it came to linguist Michael Everson's attention that the character in the 1429 manuscript was actually made up of ten eyes. After a 2022 proposal to change the character to reflect this, it was updated later that year for Unicode 15.0 to have ten eyes and to extend below the baseline.
Absolutely brilliant and engaging explanations of some difficult to understand topics. Especially lesson 22 on Emergence and Complexity has been an eye opener.
What engineers mean by debt toughly falls into two buckets. The first is actual debt, coding done on borrowed time, either consciously or unconsciously. The second is when a lack of experience, knowledge, laziness or other bad habits cause the code written to not be adaptable/agile enough to later have a low cost of change when the world changes.
Many reasons and excuses for each, but the first one is usually due to business reasons (why polish and mature one feature when you can develop five) while the second is due to engineering reasons.
At the end of the day, it's either proof of work or proof of force. You can't have a good society build on force, implicit or explicit. In a perfect world we could go with proof of stake, but the world is what it is.
All this causes is a massive amount of busywork just to have a shot at maintaining the value of your previous work. This is not necessary for a good economy, not to mention all the externalities it creates.
To me it seems like we haven't reinvented the same thing, but semi-adapted an existing process of communication to the technology available. It's almost like emoji's are the next step of pictograms, however they're mostly used to provide (extra) context to the existing form of commucation.
It's a bit like doing this:
"It was a very sunny day." <- regular sentence
"It was a very [sun emoji] day." <- same thing
"It was a very sunny day. [happy face emoji]" <- v3 pictos that (implicitly?) communicate extra context
"It was a very sunny day. [高兴]" <- same thing, but v1 pictos
CDPR doesn't iterate and test their code in the optimal way. Most of the time they just go at it full on and patch things up at the end.
This was (un)fortunately for them a project where the complexity rose so high that their approach couldn't handle it (also covid didn't help), and they were left with intertwined systems that were causing severe performance bottlenecks everywhere (think polynomial or even exponential).
AI the way they planned it meant spawning hundreds of NPCs, all interacting with one another and the player, with badly designed systems for that interaction (because why spend upfront time on this if you can floor it), and almost no consideration on how that would impact the graphics and physics sides of the game.
The whole development of this game is a case study of how to fail at keeping your externalities in check.
That's because everyone fell for the systems fallacy. Blockchain was designed for bitcoin to function, for that purpose alone. Then because it worked for that one use case of a decentralized storage/transfer of value, people assumed they could make it work for everything else. Not how technology works.
Depends on what you mean by bad. And which era of Soviet architecture. The block flats look like prisons and feel like the budget ran out 1/3 of the way building them. The early stuff looks excellent, at least the well built parts. The overall build quality is a bit hit or miss on everything.
Full transparency of how the system classifies a given person, person is fully annonymous and it's based on reputation alone. Then let ME decide the parameters of what I want to see. Treat it like a decision support system for content. Can be gamed for sure, but give new accounts the base defaults only (like certain subreddits do) and it would eliminate most of this since the barrier to abusing it is very high. Also, teach users that they might sometimes see something weird or bad, be transparent with them. This shielding behavior is like a helicopter parent soccer mom "protecting" their kid. It's annoying there and it's dangerous here.
The character was proposed for inclusion into Unicode in 2007 and incorporated as character U+A66E in Unicode version 5.1 (2008). The representative glyph had seven eyes and sat on the baseline. However, in 2021, following a tweet highlighting the character, it came to linguist Michael Everson's attention that the character in the 1429 manuscript was actually made up of ten eyes. After a 2022 proposal to change the character to reflect this, it was updated later that year for Unicode 15.0 to have ten eyes and to extend below the baseline.