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“Write once, run anywhere” is a pipe dream but Java came closer than anyone else by far.

Did we learn nothing from Snowden? I promise you the government has had a dossier on every American for decades.

I don’t know if you saw the news last month but Discord just replaced a founder with a former Activision-Blizzard exec as CEO.

I swear they are soulless NPCs put on this earth by demons to torture us.

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It feels like literally the entire open source and games communities are on discord. Will they move too? I care about that even more than my DMs.

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This is just your ego talking. You can’t stand the idea that a computer could be better than you at something you devoted your life to. You’re not special. Coding is not special. It happened to artists, chess players, etc. It’ll happen to us too.

I’ll listen to experts who study the topic over an internet rando. AI model capabilities as yet show no signs of slowing their exponential growth.

Laugh it up while you can.

We’re in the “haha it can’t draw hands!” phase of coding.

I watched a few levels of it. This game has already been made. It’s called Painkiller and I beat it 20 years ago.

I’m not super fond of dynamic typing either. I like untyped or uni-typed languages like ‘everything is an array’ (APL) or ‘everything is an integer’ (Forth, assembly).

I’m of the same opinion as Chuck Moore who once observed, “Strong typing merely creates errors so that they can be detected.” In my experience, the amount of complexity added by these systems is staggering. To such a degree that they cause more errors than they prevent. More types, more opportunities to use them incorrectly, after all.

I also prefer the ‘build the program while it’s running’ workflow, which is inhibited by static typing.

It’s been known for quite a while now. Even reddit gets annoyed with the guy.

Jay Pritzker (governor of Illinois) seems like an okay dude.

• No one should be allowed to own a second home until everyone has one.
• Static typing sucks.

Me too. Ever since I read Richard Stallman’s words to avoid article. I kinda wish I hadn’t read it now lmao.

No but there are two things we should be doing; even non-teachers. Be a role model for even a single kid. Gain their respect so they want to learn your wisdom. An afternoon of doing anything with a kid who respects you can do more than months of school. Teach them how to be upstanding and how to think.

The other part is teachers need to organize a new system in which teachers are in charge of teaching. It’ll never happen unless you start. Sitting around and bitching about the education system for going on decades now is just pathetic.

This is my point exactly. They don’t desire that. Nor should they. And so they shouldn’t do that.

We cannot keep with this horrible system that does nothing but torture kids and teachers alike. It’s not working. It’s clear it’s not working. Change will never come from the top, because like you said, they will never voluntarily change it. So it must come from the bottom.

Yes, they might have been good teachers if they hadn’t decided to support a mediocre institution that prevents teaching.