Lately, I have been reading some interesting articles about [ChatGPT][https://chat.openai.com]. In one, someone invented a new language and had ChatGPT speak it. In another, someone ran a virtual machine inside ChatGPT. The latter inspired me to ask this question:
Can you run an interactive Python session inside ChatGPT?
The short answer is “yes, you can”, and ChatGPT knows quite some Python! I played around with ChatGPT, gave it some different prompts and instructions, and then tested ChatGPT's limits and understanding of the Python language. I was blown away by ChatGPT's understanding of Python. It understood and gave the correct results for code that used: read more...
Traditionally, Unix/Linux/POSIX filenames can be almost any sequence of bytes, and their meaning is unassigned. The only real rules are that "/" is always the directory separator, and that filenames can't contain byte 0 (because this is the terminator). Although this is flexible, this creates many unnecessary problems. In particular, this lack of limitations makes it unnecessarily difficult to write correct programs (enabling many security flaws), makes it impossible to consistently and accurately display filenames, causes portability problems, and confuses users. more ....
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