Common like water in the sea. People assuming things are simple is pretty much the whole reason why politics is dumb, for example. Even the fascist stuff has a few notes of it.

Hey, I haven’t heard about the fast food order takers lately. Did they start hallucinating new combos or something?

If they actually follow through, there will be a very satisfying level of shit that comes down on their head.

Yep. All the funding they’ve already put into it will stay put. You can’t uncode FOSS.

You can also take an intermediate approach, actually. Usually I can tell from just the developer docs or whitepapers if something has a way of producing the guarantees it claims.

Look, you either check for yourself, or trust people who have. The only other option amounts to building your own parallel reality.

Go look at the code, then.

I mean, they teach sorting algorithms because they illustrate all the basic ideas of complexity theory while being immediately understandable in a way linear programming or primality testing or something aren’t.

Depends on how the format represents the image. My impression is that it’s in a way that’s implicitly limited to smooth (so definitely not fractal) curves.

You’re never going to fit infinite detail in finite information, of course. At best you can loop through the finite information.

Eh, strict typing makes debugging way, way easier. Saint Grace brought us compilers for a reason. If all you have is assembly, you should start writing one.

Which is good, because we’d have a lot less software if it all had to be completely bulletproof.