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"On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?'

• tialaramex 4y ago
  That's what people want the machine to do. Ask Google right now for information about the movie "Pirates of the Pacific" starring "Joni Dep". It does not, in fact, tell you that there's no such movie. Instead it tells you stuff about the Pirates of the Carribean movies, and Johnny Depp. It's even one of the things programmers really like about Rust. If you write a program that can't possibly be correct Rust but it is obvious what it should do, the diagnostics often tell you how to write that as Rust or point you in the right direction. e.g. I just tried to write a printf-style format in Rust's println! macro and while rejecting this as incorrect the compiler said: help: format specifiers use curly braces and note: printf formatting not supported; see the documentation for `std::fmt`
  • Beltiras 4y ago
    "Joni Dep is on Facebook. Join Facebook to connect with Joni Dep and others you may know. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world..."
• yreg 4y ago
  A week ago we've had a thread here on the topic of how many of us are still amazed about imagen/dalle, but when we show it to our non-tech friends they are unphased. This is why.