obosob

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop doing Computer Science⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a nonsensical statement to us programmers too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨call the doctor, the CS doctor⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Most of the time it’s not exactly useful and some of the positions are awkward (e.g. 8, 9, 10), counting to 31 on one hand is maybe useful.

  More useful IMO is counting in base 6 and treating each hand as a single digit. i.e counting to 35 on 2 hands without awkward fingerings. Better than 10, less awkward than binary.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This comic was published less than ten years ago, and it's wild how obsolete it is⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Even with AI models that can identify that there are birds in the picture. Having it decide with accuracy that the picture is of a bird is still a hard problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bleeding edge tech⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Chars are just numbers, but yeah, an enum would work fine too, sure. The only advantage with using a char for it is that there’s no conversion needed for outputting them into strings so it’s a little easier. Less code, very readable, etc. Though yeah, thinking about it JQKA wouldn’t be numerically in the right order which could cause issues if the program did more than just implement HiLo

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bleeding edge tech⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, just use a char for card and test

  if(card < '7') count++;
  else count--;
  

  Or something, don’t mix types.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Currently inked⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you forgot the image. I think lemmy let’s you edit the post and add it though.