To be clear - as of today, many researchers would agree that language is still a uniquely human phenomenon. They discuss this pretty explicitly in the article linked, how it is important to draw a distinction between language and communication. There are no non-human species that have been found to use language for the Chomskian definition of language (using a finite set of symbols to represent an infinite number of communicable meanings).

However, this "dogma" as you call it is beginning to be weakened as researchers document more nuance and complexity in non-human communication than ever before, and so some researchers begin to say, "maybe we shouldn't have this all-or-nothing view of language". But it is simply not true that researchers are suppressing evidence of language in animals out of a desire to enslave and torture them.

Imagine a image, not being saved, instead all you have is a tag-prompt - recreating the image on demand, if a older blog post is loaded.. Then again, how many fingers m i holding up?

I've always wondered how people actually get the profiles for Profile-Guided-Optimization. Unit tests probably won't actuate high-performance paths. You'd need a set of performance-stress tests. Is there a write-up on how everyone does it in the wild ?

Same happened with Walkmans or desktop computer, or mobile phones etc.

It's pretty normal that people want less of stuff when it's expensive, and more when it's cheap.

To be specific: if you can find a way to make fridges for half the previous cost, and you can sell them for three quarters the previous price, you don't want to talk people out of buying more fridges. In fact, them buying vastly more fridges is exactly what you want.

But there's only one Kevin Bacon.

I mean there's also Erdos, but that's a different story.

Eh? you have a full graph of one node to every other node. not shortest path between every pair (which I assume is what a full kevin bacon database would be).