• orangeboats@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      People back then just grossly underestimated how big computing was going to be.

      The human brain is not built to predict exponential growths!

  • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 months ago

    I’m pretty sure the eventual conversion of every atom in the universe to computronium will run Linux.

  • pelya@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Just look at those nested parentheses. A true sign of (pedantic) greatness, when a person needs to clarify something in their earlier clarification.

    • Aceticon@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      The amount of effort I do to try and avoid using double parentesis is trully herculean.

      I think that stuff is the product of a completionist/perfectionist mindset - as one is writting, important details/context related to the main train of thought pop-up in one’s mind and as one is writting those, important details/context related to the other details/context pop-up in one’s mind (and the tendency is to keep going down the rabbit hole of details/context on details/context).

      You get this very noticeably with people who during a conversation go out on a tangent and often even end up losing the train of thought of the main conversation (a tendecy I definitelly have) since one doesn’t get a chance to go back and re-read, reorganise and correct during a spoken conversation.

      Personally I don’t think it’s an actual quality (sorry to all upvoters) as it indicates a disorganised mind. It is however the kind of thing one overcomes with experience and I bet Mr Torvalds himself is mostly beyond it by now.

    • Lucy :3@feddit.org
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      8 months ago

      I love it™ (The nested parentheses are one of the greatest tools known to mankind (And to all other creatures))

      • ulterno@lemmy.kde.socialEnglish
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        8 months ago

        I have been stopping myself from using those and instead restructure my sentence. But if people like it, guess I can start keeping it.

        I do find it more useful, however, to have a kind of a reference to the thing written at the end instead [1], but markdown doesn’t seem to have anything for that, and using the syntax for Markdown references, is only useful for hyperlinks, or if the reader is willing to read the hover text 2.

        [1]: Like This. I would love it if the markdown viewer would link the above [1] to this line. Maybe with a scrolldown effect.

          • ulterno@lemmy.kde.socialEnglish
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            8 months ago

            And automatically numbered too! Nice.

            Though for me, instead of a scrolldown effect, it reloads the page on clicking the link. Trying a second time, it does the scrolldown properly. Weird
            But that’s just an implementation detail and as long as this is standard, I’ll just start using it.

            Thanks

          • ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.world
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            7 months ago

            Well ain’t that some shit. It would make my comments more readable to a degree[1]. I also like how they have return links for when you have some monster text wall that nobody would ever read in the first place on this platform.

            1. not that I’d ever use it ↩︎

      • sramder@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        8 months ago

        I had a teacher that screamed at me for “taking the lords name in vain…” They’re definitely wrong from time-to-time ;-)

    • Farid@startrek.website
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      7 months ago

      Some of those parens could’ve been replaced with commas and retain their meaning (that’s what I do to avoid nesting, so that it doesn’t get confusing).

        • Farid@startrek.website
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          7 months ago

          I’ve never seen that being used, but it seems it’s a thing in English. What if you wanna best deeper? Do you go {}? Then <>? «»?

          • VindictiveJudge@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            7 months ago

            Not really an English thing so much as a math thing that makes too much sense to not use elsewhere. For instance, in math you might have x[3 - 7{3y + (a * b)}]. I haven’t actually seen them go deeper than three sets, though, so I’m not sure what would be next.

            • ElTacoEsMiPastor@lemmy.ml
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              7 months ago

              at that point I start recycling them, and go back to parenthesis.

              so when bp = 300x - 3, this:

              4( 4[ 4{ 15bp + 10 } - 375 ] - 2250 ) - 15000

              would turn to

              4( 4[ 4{ 15( 300x - 3) + 10 } - 375 ] - 2250 ) - 15000

              perhaps not the best, but I rather stick to conventional symbols rather than using… idk, question marks? that’d be funny as hell, though

              just picture it:

              4© 4« 4¿ 15bp + 10 ? - 375 » - 2250 🄯 - 15000

        • Farid@startrek.website
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          7 months ago

          Not as good as my other primary languages, I have to admit. Finnish has too many consonants for my taste.

  • PseudoSpock@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    7 months ago

    That post changed my life, gave me a great hobby, which became a career, and still puts food on the table for me and my family to this day. Thank you, Linus.

  • davel@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    8 months ago

    There’s no guessing what will catch the world by storm. At a party once, Bram Cohen tried to get me interested in his ideas for a a peer-to-peer protocol, and I thought nothing of it.

    • masterspace@lemmy.caEnglish
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      8 months ago

      My cousin’s buddies asked him to build the website for their new ride hailing app but he didn’t feel like doing some rinky dink thing, apparently Travis and them took it in stride though.

  • vu2tum@lemmy.radio
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    8 months ago

    “Just a hobby, won’t be big” - he really didn’t think it will be one of the most sought after projects.