Computers should understand what I *actually* meant by that. They take everything so literally.
If I mean it literally, then I will preface with the codeword "literally". Like duh.
literally print. No cap.
It's like, you know I meant from 2 to 8 and not 1 to 7. Like, computer bro, I am not feeling seen, felt and heard.
yes, i know you been in this game a while but maybe this is your first experience fighting with the actual low level parts of it
literal is always implied, always
that's why abstractions are evil, because they confuse what is literally meant
😂 I'm just joking around.
i'm laughing
it's a beautiful thing to watch these things unfold in real time that we all went through at some point, usually over and over and over again
https://i.nostr.build/Q708a.jpg
Haven't even used PHP on this computer before, so it's like 😜
Took me like an hour, just to configure everything, so that I could try out Hello World. 😂
i think you read (some of) my kitchensink guide, how long until you could do a #golang hello world?
tbh i forget if you run linux...
Yeah, Linux.
I already have golang setup, so five minutes.
package main
func main(){
fmt.Println("hello world")
}
The End I just sat there, all frustrated,
Why doesn't it run?
Why doesn't it run?
OMG I hate computers and it's mutual! 😭
OMG I hate my life! 😭
Oh, forgot the <?php tag. Oops. Nevermind.
haha
yeah, php is a derivative of XML
It's like, the file extension is .php
It shoulda known. Just sayin.
yeah, but php be how it do
my god i barely even finished pressing ctrl-enter and i get an ack "reading emoji" from you
you are fast
Not sure what the big deal is or why go is so verbose. In Libre office Writer I just type
Hello World
And there it is.
Superior IDE, that LibreOffice.
lol
markup is not programming
Proof of "Hello World". 😅
It threw up errors, but wrote anyway, so oh well.
nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzq4ekxjmysc6vhtgs7fz3wasgn63ppyxegplhzh5rc4mmgcg6umkuqydhwumn8ghj7argv4nx7un9wd6zumn0wd68yvfwvdhk6tcpr4mhxue69uhkummnw3ezumt4w35ku7thv9kxcet59e3k7mf0qqsgkpy6vemyljr7qqn28hrt5fq7edrwdlv9c7mgsumg2t9a270vp3gqg9mds
If computers didn't take orders literally, they wouldn't be computers, they would be humans.
What you want is human slaves.
https://c.tenor.com/5vkMIc-EaLUAAAAd/tenor.gif
Or, as I like to call them "male developers on the same team".
yes, boys and computers share this feature of literal interpretation of the salient words
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
Fr. They're like halfway there, already. I have to think further.
yes, probably the difference is the boys have one level of abstraction called "vocabulary" and "grammar" that is a little opaque
I sometimes feel like that when talking to my son. His brain processes commands exactly like a computer. You had better say what you really mean or you could get something totally unintended.
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