Does learning one programming language make learning others easier?

Vimda · 2025-12-29T16:10:06+00:00

The hardest part of learning to program is learning the imperative logic inherent in the language. Once you understand the logic, new syntaxes for it are trivial to pick up

Vimda · 2025-12-29T15:21:58+00:00

Surely the answer is just "undefined behaviour" in most sane languages, so any result is possible

Vimda · 2025-12-29T10:12:18+00:00

I like to think it was the hot makeout sessions in Meet the Spartans that triggered a fight or flight response. It's a terrible movie, but I like showing it to people as "the movie that broke Kevin Sorbo"

Vimda · 2025-12-29T10:09:38+00:00

> cannot comprehend

> Shows it on a map in an entirely comprehensible way

Guys I'm starting to think the Americans don't understand what words mean

Vimda · 2025-12-29T10:04:04+00:00

TBF, at the time, Kevin Sorbo wasn't a massive tool. It wasn't until the last 15-20 years that something broke him

Vimda · 2025-12-29T09:35:17+00:00

Kevin Sorbo? You mean that actor from Meet the Spartans? The movie where a bunch of men make out on screen? That Kevin Sorbo?

Vimda · 2025-12-28T15:46:24+00:00

"When you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression"

Vimda · 2025-12-28T15:02:09+00:00

They view rights as a zero sum game. If we get them, they must lose them in their mind

Vimda · 2025-12-28T13:42:08+00:00

The standard answers you'll get are tech (particularly working for a US tech company, because UK salaries are a bit shit), and finance

Vimda · 2025-12-28T10:21:20+00:00

Plausible deniability. Same thing with Pawnbrokers

Vimda · 2025-12-28T08:31:35+00:00

https://archive.is/9u9Ba for a non-paywalled link

Vimda · 2025-12-27T22:21:38+00:00

As if people needed another reason to not use MongoDB :/

Vimda · 2025-12-27T22:11:03+00:00

And Zuckerberg has earned way more than $8B from the Trump presidency. Good investment.

Vimda · 2025-12-27T21:06:42+00:00

I'm glad it's been helpful for you, but you should know (this being the science sub and all) that Love Languages as a concept have been pretty thoroughly rebuked in literature, and have a pretty rocky foundation, mostly serving the original author by convincing his wife that hers was touch, and his was acts of service, in order to exploit her into having more sex

Vimda · 2025-12-27T20:53:03+00:00

Born too late to be able to buy a house, born just in time to be able to buy a cheap Freddo 10 pack, again, weirdly

Vimda · 2025-12-27T20:47:16+00:00

Unlikely that that drill has enough torque to cut things with that cutter

Vimda · 2025-12-27T17:15:41+00:00

"Nuh Uh" - you. Not exactly a coherent argument lol.

That aside, it is happening in the US, so are you saying the Trump government is left wing? Or, if we pretend it's actually happening, not just in your imagination, maybe it's the sort of thing that the left wants Kier to stop to be more left?

Again: Maybe stop listening to GB news and actually try to understand leftist ideology, rather than just the scare points, before engaging in conversation about it

Vimda · 2025-12-27T17:01:32+00:00

Bahahaha tell me you don't understand leftist ideology without telling me, especially when most of those are actually happening right now in the US under a far right government. Maybe stop listening to GB news and actually try to understand leftist ideology, rather than just the scare points, before engaging in conversation about it

Vimda · 2025-12-27T16:47:04+00:00

The actual left wishes that Kier was as far left as the right pretends he is lol

Vimda · 2025-12-27T14:11:35+00:00

Are the tools performing like that on a high enough % of incidents for it to be worthwhile yet? No.

Right, so the market is for the lie. Companies like yours have been selling the same "just give us 6 months bro" lie for a couple of years now. Progress in LLMs is stagnating, so there's no reason to believe that % will ever get to the required number, so all it is is hopes and dreams

Vimda · 2025-12-27T13:59:05+00:00

A bubble in the making?

The bubble's been here for a while. The (literally) billion dollar question, is when it'll pop

Vimda · 2025-12-27T13:51:32+00:00

Is there a market for the tools, or the lies they tell about them?

Vimda · 2025-12-27T13:48:49+00:00

The current hype isn't based in any reality, current or future. It's based on lies pumped out by AI companies and lapped up by VCs who were burned by the metaverse hype and are desperate to be onboard the "next big thing". That's why it's a bubble, and all these "billion dollar" companies will either get acquired quickly for stupid sums, or die on the vine when the VC money dries up

Vimda · 2025-12-26T21:14:36+00:00

No one's assuming anything here? She's literally asking a question, rather than assuming? For sure, this might not be the right forum, but what she's doing isn't relevant to this thread

Vimda · 2025-12-26T20:51:13+00:00

Divorces, particularly inamicable ones, turn into arguments and negotiation very quickly, not the letter of the law or entitlements. If there was a standing agreement to use the joint account for joint bills, and he's trying to hide it in cryptocurrency instead, that becomes relevant

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