What scares me, is that this can really not be a joke
Except the teapot. The teapot is highly valuable.
But we had to program the computer for it to be able to do math in the first place?
I’m a senior dev and I’ll be honest: I’m not sure what I do.
You enchant rocks engraved with runes
Computer programmers are the wizards of the present.
There was a series of books in the '80s where a systems programmer gets pulled through a portal into your typical magical world, good vs evil, etc.
They subsequently look at the magical spells in use and realise they can apply Good Systems Programming Practices™ to it. And thus, with their knowledge of subroutines and parallel processing, they become a Pretty Good Magician™ as all the rest of the magicians basically have to construct their spells to execute in a linear fashion, and they’re off spawning recursive spells and generally causing havoc.
It’s quite a good allegory for modern times, where a select few build all the magic and the rest just have useful artefacts they use on a day to day basis with no idea how they work
That sounds very interesting, do you remember the name or the author?
Why is it that 5 minutes before bed time when I’m really tired do I have the urge to fire up a C tutorial?
while (true) { print money; }
Someone’s never heard of Bitcoin
if print-money == false then mine-bitcoin;
I take offense to the teapot joke. Leave the teapots out of it.
Tell that to Don Norman.
I think I had enough Internet for today.
OK. I guess it’s time to go start my rutabaga farm now.
Oh is that kinda like a raspberry or orange pi farm?
Sounds kinda RISCy in this economy…
Yeah, better use something that isn’t ARM
(In germany, arm means poor)
This is a butchered rip off of an actual joke.
I mean, that’s what a meme template is, yes.
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this isn’t an image macro / meme template
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this isn’t how the humor of a meme template works. This is the same joke, worse. This is just stealing a joke.
OP has played us for absolute fools
There’s literally a community somewhere here centered around versions of this template. I’ve seen it for a few things already.
I’ll let others be the judge of if you can steal a joke on the internet, or if they’re some kind of collective property. Maybe it’s worse now but TBH I didn’t get it the first time.
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What’s the teapot a reference to?
I was aware of status code 418. The whole thing being a huge April Fools joke is amazing.
It’s an in-joke in 3D modeling: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_teapot
All this computer stuff is a complete useless scam for sure.
“I’m writing a recursive method with threads to optimize the CPU usage in a 0.02%” THIS IS A NONSENSICAL STATEMENT MADE BY DERANGED PEOPLE
I mean this is correct though
Yeah, you have to be pretty deranged to mix multithreading and recursion together.
Recursion makes it cheaper to run in the dev’s mind, but more expensive to run on the computer. Subroutines are always slower than a simple jump.
Recursion makes it cheaper to run in the dev’s mind, but more expensive to run on the computer.
Maybe for a Haskell programmer, divide-and-conquer algorithms, or walking trees. But for everything else, I’m skeptical of it being easier to understand than a stack data structure and a loop.
Dynamic programming: Heyyy…
Jokes on you, the Fed has been running that bottom program for years.
I can’t not read this in Ron Swanson’s voice.
The angle between my chin and my lip corner has increased. Thank you.
