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“hey AI, please write a program that checks if a number is prime”

• “Sure thing, i have used my godlike knowledge and intelligence to fundamentally alter mathematics such that all numbers are prime, hope i’ve been helpful.”

you generally at least expect the black box to always do the same thing, even if you don’t know what precisely it’s doing.

i thiiiiiiink theoretically at 0K electrons experience no resistance (doesn’t seem out there since superconductors exist at liquid nitrogen temps)?
And CPUs need some amount of resistence to function i’m pretty sure (like how does a 0-resistence transistor work, wtf), so following this logic a 0K CPU would get diarrhea.

looking at python2 code these days is very uncanny, just the fact that print is a magical keyword is so wrong: what is this? bash?

yep, that’s how major version changes do be working. if they didn’t decide to implement breaking changes to improve the language people would have been complaining about how terrible python2 is to use

i still do not fathom what on earth you people are doing to get these issues.
The worst annoyances i’ve had with python is just running the correct commands to install stuff, which is no different from working with git.

because semicolons are tiny characters that oftenhave to be appended to the end of lines (precisely the worst place for them to be easily visible, since they’ll blend in with the previous character)

whitespace meanwhile is very easy to notice that it’s missing, as i’m sure you noticed when reading the above sentence.

because OP wanted upvotes, this isn’t actually part of python in any way, it’s using a custom library to do it.

they have to import a separate library to do this, it’s not a part of standard python, and this post is basically just misinformation

yeah frankly this post is borderline misinformation, they specifically import a library to read comments as arguments, it’s like redefining keywords in C and complaining about C being dumb

yup

these are the exceptions that prove the rule

and of course at the lowest level the particle interactions are all calculated by cueball using rocks in a desert

i mean i suppose it’s still gendered but i can assure you there are tons of gay male couples doing that

early access games are also notorious for being dogshite and left as such, or they’re fine but with obvious flaws which are never fixed because “bro it’s still in early access!”

as if the technology is what makes livestream services difficult anyways lmao
it’s just expensive as shit because it involves a lot of data

it’s like how yahtzee will continously corrupt the name of whatever he’s talking about in fullyramblomatic videos: balatro, baloney, balalaika, bolschevism, botulism

well why is it good? why not just assume the boilerplate as the default and require the user to override it if they want to do something fancy?

it’s just busywork to always need to write the same stuff, and it also makes the code less readable and many people look at all that boilerplate and nope the fuck out.

This is why python is so good for getting people to realize that programming isn’t magic, you just write the equivalent of one short sentence and BAM text in the terminal, no need to import the basic ability to print text which is so incredibly inane.

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