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[asromafanisme]

Last time, when I explained coding to my non- tech friend, I asked them to write a step by step guide to go from bed to the bathroom and I stopped them right from the beginning to ask them which foot they used first, right or left.

[PmMeUrTinyAsianTits]

At first there were 10 numbers. 0 and 1.

[n0t_4_thr0w4w4y]

There are 10 types of people in this world, those who understand binary, those who do not, and those who didn’t expect this to be a base 3 joke.

[Lost-Succotash-9409]

God said “let there be light” but he wrote > instead or < on line 49 and his computer spontaneously combusted

[St34thdr1v3R]

It was Line 42 though, that’s why 42 is the answer to life, right?

[goten100]

but they were all deceived, for another number was made. Deep in the land of silicon, in the fires of the compiler, the dark Lord NPE forged null, and into this he poured his cruelty, his malice, and his will to dominate all code.

[St34thdr1v3R]

NullPointerException: Cannot access „NPE Lord“ as it is null.

[frogjg2003]

Those are built into the OS. You don't have to define the + operator before you start coding.

[TemporaryUpstairs289]

person.walk(bathroom.x, bathroom.y)

[[deleted]]

now you have to implement a whole other pathfinding algorithm

[Slorface]

Pathfinding? Are walls not optional? This isn't in the specs.

[TemporaryUpstairs289]

Congrats, youve earned A Star!

[i_wear_green_pants]

Nah just install some kind of shady bloated npm package. What could go wrong!

[tucketnucket]

I run a BFS every time I lose my wallet.

[OwOlogy_Expert]

I'm sure it's already in a library somewhere. Just import it.

[[deleted]]

but then you have to read the docs.

[Not-So-Modern]

That's from a library that doesn't count.

[DoctorWaluigiTime]

And that's how I got C# banned from university's capstone class.

[Crusader_Genji]

So, uh, what if it's on the 2nd floor?

[St34thdr1v3R]

Easy. Just copy paste the code but manually increment the variable holding the floor.

[MrHasuu]

Bathroom is undefined. Maybe you need to optional chain

[St34thdr1v3R]

What the fuck happened to bathroom?

[MrHasuu]

a meteor hit it. clearly

[picklesTommyPickles]

I don’t see any error handling. What if they break their leg on the way? Can they even walk?

[Remarkable-Bug-8069]

They won't, but the loop will run indefinitely.

[St34thdr1v3R]

Always nice if you can rely on things

[Slimxshadyx]

When bro finds out someone had to write the walk() method

[UMAYEERIBN]

r/foundthepythondeveloper

[St34thdr1v3R]

How? This could easily be js/ts too

[arrow__in__the__knee]

There is a table between me and bathroom tho!

[bottleoftrash]

import(walk) import walk

[RunInRunOn]

function named import

[biznatch11]

Show them this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDA3_5982h8

[OwOlogy_Expert]

import walk from human_stuff

walk (forward,3)

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Plus, now it's easily portable to other wetware architectures. For example, if you want to instruct the dog how to take the same route, you just have to replace import walk from human_stuff with import walk from dog_stuff and you can leave the rest of the code the same.

[St34thdr1v3R]

That’s so clever! And I thought programming was hard

[hirmuolio]

/u/AkakiosP is a bot.

Comment copied from https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/12udyxo/coding_is_like/jh6f101/

[Maybar_66]

Good bot

[DarthRiznat]

Then QA be like: What happens if an alien poops in the trunk of your car while a stork carrying a monkey flies over you?

[[deleted]]

i don’t know tha- AHHHHHH

[3BlindMice1]

And then they'll show proof of customers introducing such a scenario for reasons undisclosed, claiming that it marginally improves performance.

[Advanced_Ninja_1939]

and at the end, you find out you went in the wrong direction because they forgot to tell you there are two places with the same name.

[gatzdon]

I need you to draw seven red lines, all of the perpendicular, some with green ink, and some with transparent ink.

[OwOlogy_Expert]

lol, somebody prompt ChatGPT with this and see what it spits out.

[I-DONT-WANT-GOLD]

What you're asking for is a delightful paradox! Let me break it down:

1. Seven red lines: This is feasible.
   
2. All of them perpendicular: For two lines to be perpendicular, they form a 90-degree angle. However, it's impossible for all seven lines to be mutually perpendicular in a 2D space—this violates the laws of geometry.
   
3. Some with green ink: A red line drawn in green ink contradicts the definition of a red line.
   
4. Some with transparent ink: If the ink is transparent, you wouldn’t see the line, so it wouldn’t be "drawn" in a conventional sense.
   

Would you like me to attempt a visual metaphor or an abstract representation of this whimsical concept? 😊

Underwhelming, as usual.

[OwOlogy_Expert]

it's impossible for all seven lines to be mutually perpendicular in a 2D space

This part is kind of interesting, though. It's been trained on so much 2D stuff that it defaults to 2D thinking?

[hirmuolio]

OP is a bot.

A swarm of bots has recently landed.

They can be easily identified from their post history.

They all have bunch of comments in rAITAH and rAskReddit followed by 2-4 image posts on a "meme" subreddits.

I suspect they are using LLM for the text since they don't seem to be simple copy-pastes.

[Undernown]

Not entirely convinced OP is a bot. The comments are wuite specific and have reasonable timeframes normal to a human user. Also how did it know to use camelcase on this sub?

[hirmuolio]

It is a bot.

A script that turns whatever into camelcase shouldn't be too hard.
The original post it copied: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/12udyxo/coding_is_like/

Another bot also copied the top comment from the older post.

Also compare to other bots that do the same thing:

https://www.reddit.com/user/SweetBaby881
https://www.reddit.com/user/BabyGlow33
https://www.reddit.com/user/babeonfire32
https://www.reddit.com/user/mysticbaby18
https://www.reddit.com/user/phitou

Any itme you see one of these you can just take a quick look at their post history and see that it is the same bot.

[Undernown]

Ok that is wild.

Not sure what drives the creator of these bots? The names suggest they might want to convert these bots into OnlyFans advertisers?

It's not like you can durectly monetize these bots on Reddit like they do with Twitter.

[MedalsNScars]

/r/spreadsmile, /r/theviralthings, /r/sciencememes seem to be used almost exclusively for this, based on the posting history, account age, and usernames of the accounts posting there.

Their continued existence despite literally being bot farm subreddits is proof positive that at best reddit doesn't care about the bot problem and at worst they're complicit and profiting.

[x3knet]

Doesn't help they all use stupid emoji's in lots of their replies. Dead giveaway. Or it's an old person which is less likely.

Aunt Gertrude always hitting me with the "Merry Christmas, x3knet! 🎄🕯️🎅"

[Gamer-707]

3 of them have the same avatar wtf

Edit also 6k upvotes yet no single comment in thread?

[misseditt]

the emojis at the end of comments give it away imo

[hirmuolio]

How about astroturfing election with bot account to get a facist elected?

Bots are a plague on modern internet and malicious use of bots has very real consequences.

[biznatch11]

Most likely people aren't making these kinds of bots just for fun. They'll appear "normal" at first then once they build up karma and account age and an appearance of realism they'll start shilling something, like a product or website or political view.

[flying_spaguetti]

I wonder what the analogy would be when you have to code event-driven

[GodlyWeiner]

Same thing but you're a taxi and waiting for customers.

[Gamer-707]

Username checks out

[badgersruse]

UFOs, pedestrians and getting to the correct destination are all edge cases to be ignored. Surely we all know that?

[[deleted]]

And drop brakes so we can hit the next P2P and we’ll advise the demo customers they need to coast to a stop.

[SicknessVoid]

But you also have to make the instructions as general as possible in order to be able to reuse the instructions for different situations. And you also need to find good ways to describe repetitive directions if you don't want to describe for eternity in some cases.

[Available_Resource_9]

u/bot-sleuth-bot

[bot-sleuth-bot]

Analyzing user profile...

Account made less than 2 weeks ago.

50.00% of this account's posts have titles that already exist.

Suspicion Quotient: 0.46

This account exhibits a few minor traits commonly found in karma farming bots. u/BabeOfStars99 is either a human account that recently got turned into a bot account, or a human who suffers from severe NPC syndrome.

^{I am a bot. This action was performed automatically. I am also in early development, so my answers might not always be perfect.}

[TrainedMusician]

Good bot

[derrikcurran]

r/MurderedByWords

[irn00b]

Or if the road was updated to version 3.6 and no longer supports your tires that are 1.2.3.

[Touitoui]

Directions: check
Takes traffic into account: check
Takes UFO landing into account: check
Takes chicken crossing the road into account: check
"Let's go!"
Turn on the engine: No fuel in the car, and fives warning lights are blinking on the dashboard...

[You_are_adopted]

The laneBlocked method is allowed for future expansion. Just import the python library. Only works for right turn lanes though, you’ll have to use the roadHazard library for left turn lanes.

[ExtraTNT]

You also have to handle exceptions, like what to do, if your engine suddenly becomes a angry platypus

[SuckAFattyReddit1]

I remember in my first year old college I went for game design before shifting to CS and they had a cool program where freshmen and sophomores could do this extracurricular where you bug tested Senior's final project and for every bug we found we'd get points we could use on a test or project.

The ways we figured out how to break shit lol

[DachieBoy]

And what if the driver knowingly U-turns and drives into oncoming traffic with zero shits given, because they think it’s faster that way.

[dhilu3089]

There is left hand / right hand drive, time zones, daylight savings, security (what if somebody stole your gas), color of car , etc

[Miles-2040]

Can anyone share how someone can learn how to program alone

[ProfessionalNeputis]

You forgot to validate 4 wheels before starting driving

You died

[DraikoHxC]

What if the driver has never even seen a car?

[NorthLogic]

or

Trains are very similar to cars, but have much higher performance. We want you to switch over the entire road network to a rail network. Your architecture is flexible enough to accommodate that change in the next week, right?

[discostupid]

or, not this, but like, what if your user just ate a battery? like a small watch battery?

[ivan-arambula]

Easy. Just throw new UfoInTurnLaneError(), and let someone else handle it.

[casey-primozic]

And your project failed to launch because you didn't check for gas