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sommerfeld | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 If computers didn't take orders literally, they wouldn't be computers, they would be humans.

What you want is human slaves.
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Laeserin | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 https://c.tenor.com/5vkMIc-EaLUAAAAd/tenor.gif
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Laeserin | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Or, as I like to call them "male developers on the same team".
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mleku | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 yes, boys and computers share this feature of literal interpretation of the salient words
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mleku | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 oh yeah, ironically, one of the best computers ever made, literally got the brand "girlfriend" - amiga

and it was a beautiful lady, she always knew what you meant, unlike these toxic corporate intel things
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Laeserin | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Fr. They're like halfway there, already. I have to think further.
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mleku | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 yes, probably the difference is the boys have one level of abstraction called "vocabulary" and "grammar" that is a little opaque