Entertainment Porpoises OnlyINTERCAL: We have keywords like PLEASE and IGNORE because we think it's funny
Anthropic: We have PLEASE and IGNORE *baked into our source-code* because we have no fucking idea how this thing works
Anthropic: "You have no idea what's coming. And neither do we. We literally have no idea how any of this works. Our source-code looks like something you'd be embarrassed to present as a GCSE assignment"
Andrea (Drea) Tamar Pinski@pikesley There was no GCSE for computer science when I was in secondary school :(. If there was I definitely would have taken it.
4 years after my GCSEs (well I only got a maths one but that is a different story) I was contributing to GCC even.
4 years after my GCSEs (well I only got a maths one but that is a different story) I was contributing to GCC even.
@robinadams @pinskia I have a GCSE in Computing from 1990 (we were the third GCSE cohort I think)
@pikesley @robinadams So maybe the secondary school I went to didn't offer it at that time which was expected from a school is a poor working class neighborhood of Coventry. They had acorn machines though which gave me a good introduction into that :).
Jez Higgins@pinskia @pikesley @robinadams There were CSEs in Computer studies, which involved a decent amount of project work) and O levels in Computer Science (which I think were just exams) prior to to the GCSE.
No idea how widely available they were.
The CSE was pretty easy. I got a grade 1 with things I learned from Your Computer and Popular Computing Weekly magazines. (I'm not exaggerating - I did it as an extra off timetable, so did no lessons)