while (true) { print(money) }isn’t that just crypto mining?
JavaScript will actually open the print dialog.
Three years ago, yes. Now? not so much.
i mine monero while idle and it prints a massive 0.03GBP a day :)
And how much does it cost you in electricity?
free (solar)
This is basically what the bank are doing when you get a loan.
When you get a $25k loan from a bank the banker does not take money from somewhere to put it in your bank account. The banker basically just add a +25k in your bank account that comes from nowhere.
I actually have that teapot and I use it several times a week.
Socrates said books were dumbing down humanity because, since people could just look things up in books they wouldn’t have to memorise information anymore, and that made their brains soft.
Ever since society began, some people have been convinced the next generation’s technology was going to be society’s downfall, whether it was Socrates’ books, the telegraph in the 1800s, radio, the (land line) telephone, dishwashers (women will become lazy and unsuitable wives and mothers), screened windows (society will collapse because you won’t hear your neighbours and pedestrians on the street, we’ll all become hermits and die holed up in our homes), comic books would rot the brains of the youth, then music, then video games… it goes on and on.
So far, those predictions have never been true. Every older generation freaks out when the ones after come of age. It’s like societal growing pains.
Some technologies actually have had unintended side effects, but not always the ones we saw coming. Artificial lights are killing all the insects which nobody really worried about and cars do kill tons of people, which we worried about in the 1920s. I don’t know what the deal was with leaded gasoline, that one was just bizarre.
All in all, it’s just really hard to anticipate how society and technology will interact. We think about the environment now but I don’t know if any systematic progress has been made on predicting the human factor.
screened windows (society will collapse because you won’t hear your neighbours and pedestrians on the street, we’ll all become hermits and die holed up in our homes)
This one has actually come true to a certain measurable degree (see Bowling Alone, written at what is now the midpoint of the trend), but I don’t think it’s down to window screens.
Isn’t that supposed to be “Write it on a paper”?
Can someone explain this joke to me
“I’m writing a recursive method with threads to optimize the CPU usage in a 0.02%”
I understand everything apart from the “in a 0.02%”. What does that mean? How can something be in a percentage?
It’s a nonsensical statement to us programmers too.
This could be so much longer.
Killing children, class systems, so many programming language names, the ridiculous ways equality and order-of-operations are done sometimes. Plenty of recursion jokes to be made. Big O notation. Any other ideas?
Was anyone else bored of this meme as soon as it started?
It is a difficult meme template but when done right the payoff is hilarious. But yeah.
