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.
“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.
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.
IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
PROGRAM-ID. YOURWRNG.
ENVIRONMENT DIVISION.
PROCEDURE DIVISION.
DISPLAY 'YOU WERE WRONG MOM'.
STOP RUN.
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!
Is that an Atari 400 or 800?
- You can tell because the keyboard doesn’t actively make you want to kill and/or die.
