• Rin@lemm.ee
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    while (true) { print(money) }

    isn’t that just crypto mining?

  • whileloop@lemmy.world
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    This could be so much longer.

    Killing children, class systems, so many programming language names, the ridiculous ways equality and order-of-operations are done sometimes. Plenty of recursion jokes to be made. Big O notation. Any other ideas?

  • LillyPip@lemmy.ca
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    Socrates said books were dumbing down humanity because, since people could just look things up in books they wouldn’t have to memorise information anymore, and that made their brains soft.

    Ever since society began, some people have been convinced the next generation’s technology was going to be society’s downfall, whether it was Socrates’ books, the telegraph in the 1800s, radio, the (land line) telephone, dishwashers (women will become lazy and unsuitable wives and mothers), screened windows (society will collapse because you won’t hear your neighbours and pedestrians on the street, we’ll all become hermits and die holed up in our homes), comic books would rot the brains of the youth, then music, then video games… it goes on and on.

    So far, those predictions have never been true. Every older generation freaks out when the ones after come of age. It’s like societal growing pains.

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      I think this is one step further, that technology has become so abstract and complex that people who focus on different crafts and careers are using magical black boxes. It blows my mind how my neighbour goes through life without any concept of what a phone app is. He just uses functionality and memorized the associated logo. I’m an engineering wizard to him.

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    Enough people have thought of while (true){ print(money); } for manufacturers to have built stuff into printers to prevent that, alas.

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    I always wonder what the original post was. Something like “Stop doing science!” or some shit but seriously rather than sarcastically.

  • Isoprenoid@programming.dev
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    Can someone explain this joke to me

    “I’m writing a recursive method with threads to optimize the CPU usage in a 0.02%

    I understand everything apart from the “in a 0.02%”. What does that mean? How can something be in a percentage?