ZILtoid1991

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I learned to code before I learned proper English as a child.

However, many educators insist of forcing students to first learn Hungarian pseudocode (not Hungarian notation) stuff first, I specifically was forced to learn Hungarian pseudocode SQL, because our teacher thought the future of programming will be natural language programming (she was a mediocre mathematician). Problems with it include:

  • Hungarian is very antithetical to be used as keywords in a programming language, mainly by substituting affixes with different words, or keeping the affixes in certain ways.
  • Students who already know English or actual coding are confused by it.
  • Natural language programming is quite bad. Nothing is gained by throwing out programming symbols in favor of natural language. In fact, things are being lost, and the main advocates of NLP are just out-of-touch techbros, who think creation is about having a cool idea.
  • Time that could been spent learning other things are wasted on it.
on Gender neutral guide · c/memes · 8 pts · 11h

Policeman = Police officer

Fireman = Fire officer

Repairman = Repair officer

Mailman = Mail officer

Fisherman = Fisher officer

Unfortunately, we have to wait until we have fed enough training data into the slop machines until we can do anything about it, because humans are way too stupid to do it, and even if they weren't, it wouldn't be futuristic enough.

Debian might be good for servers, but try using it for work other than server-side stuff. Try installing a productivity application, so you're not 2 years behind with it! Try plugging in new hardware! Now the tables have turned.

on Anger · c/tumblr · 1 pts · 3d

Yeah, I got so angry at AI slop code that I started doing research for a video essay, and found the original form of AI coding, in the 60's and 70's. It's called "natural language programming", and it's the reason why SQL's syntax looks ass.

Doesn't necessarily need to. Would open the door to many other awful laws based on single cases. Found a single case of gay men sexually abusing children? Ban homosexuality act enacted. Some gamer shoot up a school? Gaming banned.

The UK might have banned consensual extreme pornography after one death, but it shouldn't be the norm. If anything, it should be seen as an infringement on human rights by anti-rights activists.

And then the main conspiracy nuts are going "Nyeh!", because it was about overthrowing a democratically elected government, and not rolling out communism (read: Obamacare).