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Negl I absolutely did this when I was first getting into it; especially with langs where you actually have to import something to access “higher-level” math functions. All of my review materials have me making arithmetic programs, but none of it goes over a level of like. 9th grade math, tops. (Unless you’re fucking with satellites or lab data, but… I don’t do that.)

I’m pretty sure that’s a breach of style guide in at least three different languages

but probably not C++

See, I think that’s where we disagree-- because I don’t see it as an intrinsic codified that far back. If anything, I think that’s just part and parcel of being socialized under the dictatorship of capital; where we’re literally raised to prioritize competition against our peers, and more importantly, winning that competition. I only see ‘power’ as the means to the end of accomplishing the objectives we were socialized to chase from birth.

tl;dr change the society, change the socialization, eradicate the common, but not all-encompassing desire for power over another.

Do you believe that humans intrinsically lust for power as an essentialist point?

EDIT: for a dropped ‘m’

Anyone who actually wants power should not be trusted, with it, or in general

As to fixing our own planet? Why the fuck do you think we can’t also work on that? There are billions of humans, we can surely multitask. Especially since actually living on the moon or Mars or whatnot will be a monumentally hard task in and of itself.

Then where are those efforts? When will the fossil fuel companies be shuttered, and their CEOs executed for crimes against nature and humanity? When can we trust the leaders of the most powerful nations on Earth to actually start trying to restrain the runaway global temperature increases? We just sailed straight past 2C globally; a full 25 years ahead of schedule.

If we can multitask, I’m sure as fuckin shit not seeing it; and it’s either naiveté you’re speaking from, or downright IFLS-type, bazinga-flavored malice. I don’t care about questions we haven’t asked about space yet.

I care about "how are we going to not fucking die here for the profit of some gaggle of fossil-sucking sociopaths".

How bout we stay where the fuck we’re at, fix the planet we fucked up, and stop colonizing new places?

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Abrams’ “additions” to the Star Wars setting drove me back to learning about what the Old Republic era was all about; I’m so sorry y’all had to deal with him too.

But watch, they’ll turn around and wonder why I won’t interface with the squadron company function, why I don’t care about going out for drinks with my coworkers, and why I never buy into the whole 'we’re a family so you should give more of yourself to the corp than you do your ACTUAL family’ nonsense after all of that. It’s a contemptuous ‘better-than-thou’ complex, everywhere, and it’s tiresome.

Sounds like a whole lot of programmers have a case of “never mentally graduated from high school” if there’s a habit of “witch-hunting” the “baddies”. Which… Unsurprising, after a regretted stint in military IT, everything involving rank or seniority looks like high school dynamics to me anymore, and Hacker News is FULL of personalities that project multiple hours of their lives spent stuffed inside a locker onto other people-- I can’t help but question if it wouldn’t be easier for these would-be witch-hunters to just offer a hand to these “bad” programmers, rather than tearing them down.

Iunno. Maybe I’m expecting too much maturity from modern techbros; and maybe I shouldn’t be bothering with the field.