As a child I was derided for doing the least amount possible. As an engineer that’s exactly what I get paid to do. Take that Mom.
“You won’t be carrying a calculator in your pocket all the time!” - Several of my math teachers
Math Teacher: You won’t be carrying a calculator with you every where you go.
Me: Umm actually I will.
Math teacher: yeah but in the future Microsoft will force you to log in to use the calculator App, harvest your data and sell it to your insurance company forcing you to pay thousands more.
Me: Oh umm, I’ll be using Android?
Teacher: LOL, Ok.
Me: Ok, I’ll just carry a regular calculator around.
Teacher: Trust me if you don’t want to be a nerd you need to stay inside and do your homework.
“Calculators can’t solve word problems!” Line also seems to be failing the test of time lol
Considering the CO2 output of ai, I’d say they’re creating more problems.
Eh, it’s not like that’s not a solvable problem. Electric cars and AC also suffer from the same issue wherein they’re as clean or dirty as the electric generation they’re connected to.
Hook an AC to a renewable energy source and it’s not all that dirty (provided no leaks), AI data centers are the same way.
The problem is is that, for the most part, AI isn’t solving any problems. That work isn’t accomplishing anything. Have generated images or those Google AI Summaries done anything for you? It’s a huge, new energy expense that we don’t need right now. Any solar that goes up for an AI data center could have gone to a EVs or HVAC hat currently use fossil fuels. We need to stop using those data centers to produce celebrity deepfakes and start fixing the material science issues of fusion energy.
Not entirely true, there is absolutely a lot of AI going on in science and medicine, it’s definitely doing some good for humanity on that front. And thanks to stupid VC investors money chasing unicorns everywhere, it does have a trickle down effect to the actual “good” AI.
It’s just that Medicine and Science AI articles aren’t money making articles, so you don’t see them as much.
That’s why I said “for the most part”.
Until you need to verify if the computer understood and solved the problem properly
It’s like, sure, a calculator can help you solve equations… but what is the proper equation for the situation?
I wrote a program to solve wordle. It works pretty okay
AAAAA
ABBBB
CACCC
CADDD
CADEE
CAFDF
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CARDR
CARDSWoot!
I had one on my wrist just to spite them throughout much of my school career.
I would argue the problem is not having a calculator in my pocket but getting it out of my pocket when I’m juggling a baby.
The trick is to throw the baby higher than the calculator so you have time to press a few buttons on the calculator each time.
That sounds suspiciously like me trying to comment when my dog is laying on my chest.
Wait for another 40 years and let’s see
I give my mom credit. In the 80’s she found summer classes for me where I could learn about programming.
To this day I’m not sure if she was responding to an interest I expressed, or if she planted the interest in my mind. However, for more than 30 years people have been paying me to stare at computer screens all day.
Thanks, Mom!
I give my mom credit. In the 80’s she found summer classes for me where I could learn about programming.
In the early 80s we we NOT well off. However, our entire household chose to go without christmas (and went into debt) to buy a Commodore 64 computer. It allowed me to experiment, make mistakes, and learn in a safe environment. When I started using computers in school was already very comfortable with it. When I started in the working world, I was not only comfortable, but highly knowledgeable about using and fixing computers.
My sibling and I are both successful IT professionals. I absolutely attribute having that computer (even a very under powered c64) in the house growing up.
She was right. They’re actually paying me to stare at my phone most of the time I’m supposed to be staring at the computer screen.
My mom supported me all the time, while I was failing first my Electrical Engineering, then my Environmental Science degree.
She still trusted I would make it!
And now I am better off than her and my dad, and can financially support my partner’s dreams, simply by doing what I did for fun while I was failing my studies.My mom couldn’t have known that, and she doesn’t fully understand why I make so much money doing this, but she always believed in me.
Thanks, mom!
“You will never have a job where you can wear comfortable clothes”
To this day that’s been wrong about 99% of my working life
we had to put signs up around one office I worked at warning when clients would be dropping by, because half of the back office worked in pajamas most days
Haha that’s great
And these days, the customers are just as likely to be casual.
yeah but they expect their finance dude to wear business casual or fancies. sucks.
That sucks. People expect their engineer to look sort of alive but thankfully they’re ok with disappointment in that regard. Other than that my career has had everything from “wear your Union tshirt when you think the boss is gonna be mad at you” to “why do you expect me to wear these shoes on a factory floor” to “Japanese companies wear uniforms, get over it”. Seriously hated having to wear flats instead of my boots
IDENTIFICATION DIVISION. PROGRAM-ID. YOURWRNG. ENVIRONMENT DIVISION. PROCEDURE DIVISION. DISPLAY 'YOU WERE WRONG MOM'. STOP RUN.Dammit, I can’t tell if YOURWRNG has the incorrect version of you’re!
You r wrng 🙄
You are warning?
😜
That’s the fun thing about some of the older systems. Program names were limited to eight or ten characters so you had to get creative with naming within a library (basically the equal of a folder on AS/360 … AS/400 systems) if it got large.
We have a few systems with data from the 90s that carried over the 8 character limit and a few older devs who are still in the habit of shortening names. Everyone once in a while I have to remind them to spell things out, they aren’t being charged by the letter!
Oh my goodness. I have a hard time getting folks to stop using QRPGLESRC and QCBLLESRC and start using the IFS so that we can put source in places like
/home/devname/src. And don’t even get me started, we still have DDS defined files even after IBM deprecated them in favor of SQL DDL tables.The newest IBM i machines (formerly AS/400) even come with git but can’t use that because that’s too confusing for some still. And oh my goodness, RPGLE now comes with a builtin %upper() and %lower() but folks still using %xlate(), which doesn’t work with things like UTF-8. I can’t with some of the older devs at my place and I’m not exactly a spring chicken.
All these tools IBM packs in to help people make more modern software and convert the older stuff to more modern implementations, but biggest problem I have is getting others to learn the new stuff and getting legal to be okay with major changes.
80’s mommies were often wrong, but never about bad girls.
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Is that an Atari 400 or 800?
The 400 if you acidentally stepped on it it’d flip back and bark your shin, you’d fall over and put your foot through it. that’s why there’s so few today.
- You can tell because the keyboard doesn’t actively make you want to kill and/or die.
I had a solar-powered pocket calculator with a membrane once. Credit-card-sized. You can tell I was a nerd because I owned three pocket calculators at the same time.
Didn’t they both have the shitty shift/atari button thing?
Yes, but the 400 had it on a spillproof membrane like you’d see on a fast-food cash register. The later models improved the layout but most had much worse switches than the 800.
Oh that is terrible
LOL, my friend had the 400. We all hated it.
