So all Jessie Pinkman's got to do is ask the under cover police if it's okay to sell them meth and then they can't be arrested for it?
Entrapment is reserved for the police going above and beyond, eg "sell me meth or I'll kill your dog" where it can be argued that the entrapped normally would not do the crime.
Apparently there is “entrapment by estoppel” in which a government official tells you an act is legal when it isn’t. They have to be acting as a representative of the government, though; undercover cops wouldn’t count.
I still wouldn’t be very excited to try this defense in court.
Don't you know the other rule of drug dealing? If you ask an undercover cop if they're an undercover cop, they have to tell you the truth? it's against the rules for them to lie about it.
Once more extrasolar surveys are done it would be cool to see how unique we are. If something (possibly LLM based) could rate your description and see how many systems you'd have to visit to find Earth again.
"Eight major planets, the outer four are gas giants. Planets 2 and 3 are nearly the same size. All of the other planets, edge-to-edge, fit just inside the orbit of my planet and its moon."
Whoah, hold the "AI" hype train there: I didn't design it that way, but an LLM is close to the worst possible thing you could use for this.
1. LLMs are incapable of real math or symbolic logic, so they aren't able to you whether your statement is approximately-true, and they can't tell you if it's useful either. (Lots of planets are spherical.)
2. You're trying to communicate with literal aliens that won't have any of that English training data the LLM draws from. They don't have any preconceptions about a "second" and "year" being related but one is bigger, they won't see the same colors or even have a 1:1 color sense, and they absolutely won't be inferring that Jupiter and Saturn are connected by pantheon-naming.
A lifetime exile from your entire species and culture is not something you want to leave to an LLM.
Ah, I think I wasn't clear enough and you misinterpreted me! I'm absolutely not suggesting an LLM for solving the "describe to aliens what our system looks like" problem or doing the assessment of our description.
I was trying to describe how, in the future when we have surveys of thousands of other star systems, it would be fun if there was a website that played the role of the aliens. We would describe to it in plain language what our system looked like and it would tell us if we did a good enough job to get home or not. To me, this means finding how many rows match in a database. I'm not sure how to turn plain language into a database query but, if pressed, today I'd reach for an LLM.
It goes from 3.2 x 10^-5 to 1200 fairly gradually and then suddenly to 10^9. My partner at the time looked at this and remarked "There are some unexplored orders of magnitude" which feels like a good, dramatic phrase.
It's probably paywalled like every time I google one of my kid's homework questions. ChatGPT would be trained to say "please login to see the answer" to all these questions.
It almost looks like special error handling syntax but still remains satisfying once you realize it's an || logical-or statement and it's using short circuiting rules to execute handle error if the action returns a non-zero value.
The grandparent post is specifically about trigraphs. Saying something about trigraphs was the end-in-itself, trigraphs were chosen to illustrate something about trigraphs. So your question made no sense. Hope that helps.
> So your question made no sense. Hope that helps.
I think that is uncharitable. The question ("Did you choose the legacy C trigraphs over || for aesthetic purposes?") makes perfect sense to me. I think context makes it reasonably clear that the answer is 'yes,' but that doesn't mean that the question doesn't make sense, only perhaps that it didn't need to be asked.
The post shows a “favorite C trigraph” thing, not that they were going out of their way to use trigraphs in actual code or that you should. Using trigraphs is the whole premise so no, your question makes no sense in that context.
FWIW the ??!??! double trigraph as error processing is funny because of the meaning of ?! and various combinations of ? and !. It is funny and it has trigraphs. That’s the whole point.
> The post shows a “favorite C trigraph” thing, not that they were going out of their way to use trigraphs in actual code or that you should.
But I am free to be curious and ask the author why he choose it! We are not computers but human beings! There is no HN rule that says that I cannot be curious and asks a question that arised from a thread but it is not connected to that! [1].
> But I am free to be curious and ask the author why he choose it
They chose it because the discussion is about trigraphs. It is not a particularly surprising choice to talk about trigraphs in that context.
> There is no HN rule that says that I cannot be curious and asks a question that arised from a thread but it is not connected to that!
I did not write that you did not follow HN rules, just that your question was very strange in the context. I did not downvote you, but I understand why some people did. Your question was a bit passive agressive, even if you did not mean it.
My reading of the downvoted question was one of genuine curiosity of why the author chose that as a favorite trigraph, as in “why that one instead of another”, not as criticism of the choice of trigraph over something more conventional. I may be wrong of course, but it didn’t seem like a particularly malicious question to me and your rationale unfortunately doesn’t convince me otherwise. Not that it has to, this is all very subjective after all, but just offering up a counter opinion.
I gave the question a +1 because I, as previously stated, read it to be genuine curiosity. Maybe a smiley would’ve helped, I don’t know. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I didn't downvote your comment but understand why it looks "wrong": it's like, in a thread on English oddities, you replied to someone bringing up the "buffalo buffalo buffalo" example with the question "why are you so fond of bovines"?
I think the misunderstanding is a bit of missing context from the original comment. I read it as “one of my favorite trigraphs [that I have seen]”. Their comment didn’t make a claim to using said trigraph, just that they had seen it somewhere and thought it was interesting.
Your comments seem to suggest your reading was “one of my favorite trigraphs [to use is]”, which is understandable as a valid interpretation.
The whole of this chain of comments is a misunderstanding on the original comment’s ambiguity.
This reminded me of https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/optimal-amount-of-fra...