Or: “The algorithm and data structure theory stuff is still pretty relevant. However, all of the examples are written in a language no one really uses any more. If they can get away with it.”

Pollo Request. What Walter White was always getting on his phone.

Alphabet starting with M? Hey, prescriptivist dingdongs, you can’t just say there is now apparently an alphabet that starts with M! Those things don’t exist in vacuum - if you make something like this up, you have to go all the way and define such an alphabet clearly!

Rules mean nothing unless they clarify established language use conventions! Which is why I think descriptivist approach is better in most cases.

Or, rather, most compiled languages are just syntactic sugar on top of assembly, and that’s especially true with C. (Oh, you can use curly brances and stuff for blocks? That’s sure easier to read than the label mess you get with assembly.)

Reminds me of the time when AI image generation was new, and someone generated a bunch of screwed up road intersections with stuff like circular crosswalks and whatnot. Everyone was like “humans can’t fix the traffic, but don’t worry, computers can’t fix it either.” …I think about it a lot.

My other pet peeves besides these:

• Android locking screen a second before I jab the screen, every single time
• YouTube app. Android and smart TVs. What’s wrong with it? (Vague overall gesturing) It’s garbage. How is one of the biggest tech companies in the world able to ship this and expect people to pay money for subscriptions is beyond me.