“You won’t be carrying a calculator in your pocket all the time!” - Several of my math teachers
“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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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!
