There are glimmers of JR in Gaddis' earlier work The Recognitions, specifically during the party scenes where voices overlap. But of course because the rest of the book is written in a "usual manner", you can recognise who's saying what quite easily.

Funny thing is you can use Linear Algebra to solve Sudoku puzzles.

NATO invaded Ukraine?

When Americans tell their ``allies'' that they're not spending enough on their military, what they mean is they're not buying enough American hardware.

What do they think about Hindu numerals?

I typed "Introduction to Real Analysis by Bartle" and I got:

Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1) by JK Rowling

Topology by James R Munkres

and so on.. Munkres' book is relevant and I want to read it, but what have Steve Jobs and Harry Potter got to do with with mathematics?

You may find these better:

https://book.sv/similar?id=211570

> Note 1: If you only provide one or two books, the model doesn't have a lot to work with and may include a handful of somewhat unrelated popular books in the results. If you want recommendations based on just one book, click the "Similar" button next to the book after adding it to the input book list on the recommendations page.

Oh, my mistake. That's quite cool. I'll most probably use your site over Goodreads.

They have nothing to do with mathematics but everything to do with being extremely popular books.

Most people that have read a mathematics textbook have also read and enjoyed Harry Potter.

Given you have enjoyed drinking water and breathing in the past, there is a high likelihood that you will enjoy watching the Star Wars films.

>taxed

You'd still have these dodgy imports by people/gangs wanting to evade taxation.

For me, it's the fact that I'm running code written by some random people. The code could be malicious. I don't know unless I audit it myself and I have no time for that. Remember the XZ Utils backdoor thing from a few months ago? Well how many backdoors are there in other FOSS stuff?

How is that specific to FOSS?

It's one of the main features, just incoherently rambled and backwards.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Free_Software_Definition#T...

> The freedom to study how the program works, and change it to make it do what you wish (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.

Free software can be audited for backdoors. Closed can not. Their backdoors will stay there indefinitely.

Access to source code does not translate to "written by some random people". Many F/OSS projects have a tight circle of contributors, sometimes even outright closed as for e.g. SQLite.

That aside, OP was complaining about software written by "random people". Thing is, people working in companies that write proprietary software are equally "random" in that sense. We know that some of them are North Korean agents, for example.

This statement is ridiculous.

A music CD installing a stealthed persistent kernel-level rootkit on your Windows PC would also be ridiculous, yet that's exactly what Sony BMG's rootkit in 2005 did. And guess how it was found?

Up for me.

Netflix's original productions are kinda crap though. I miss the days when you could just search for almost anything and it'd be on Netflix.

True, but people continue to signup and watch their shows. I think the AI stuff will probably be even worse but the content will be so inexpensive that it will make a profit even with less viewers. Profit is what matters so it will be considered a win.

The next YouTube competitor will be a service of purely AI content where creators will be compensated for their views no matter the size of their videos. People will figure out how to make their videos pay.