tiddy rooseveltjust because I hate linux it doesn't mean I want to use windows
wow people make some weird leaps sometimes
wow people make some weird leaps sometimes
i just hate computers, this is normal for anyone who likes computers
🇺🇦 haxadecimal 🚫👑@babe Back in the mainframe-in-a-computer-room days, I saw a sign taped on one such machine:
I really hate this damned machine
I wish that they would sell it
It never does just what I want
But only what I tell it
The cat who walks thru walls@brouhaha @babe Oh wow, I really must show this to my mother! She started programming (and sometimes designing hardware when it couldn't do what she wanted) back in the early seventies, and she always kept telling me two maxims: "The computer only did what you told it to, not what you wanted it to", and "The program doesn't work correctly because the computer does". I never knew about the poem, she will love it!
@mrrmot @babe Software systems have grown so large and complex that most of the time the computer is not doing what we tell it, but what other people have told it. We like to assume that those people told it well, but all too frequently we discover otherwise.
So the computer "doing what I tell it" mostly isn't true, although certainly much closer to that than to "doing what I want".
So the computer "doing what I tell it" mostly isn't true, although certainly much closer to that than to "doing what I want".
@brouhaha @babe Sadly true. As time goes by, I find that my "nope, that can't be right, that cannot possibly be my fault, that's either a compiler bug or a kernel one!" reactions prove to be right much more often than in my early know-it-all, it-couldn't-possibly-be-my-bug years. And don't get me started on hardware doing what Ohm and Kirchoff told it to, not what the chip designers thought they were telling it to...
David Nash