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I really wonder if gemini considers coroutines not suitable for people under 21.
My understanding is that Google currently doesn’t allow general use of coroutines at all in google3, so I think that age limit is way above 21 at the moment ;)
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>> reading nothing but effusive praise for the cleverness and elegance of C and Unix It isnt that these are GOOD ideas, it's just that no one has come up with better ones.
What do you mean? Even when those were created there were better ideas. Rust, Java, Javascript, Windows, Android, etc all are better ideas than C and UNIX.
This is definitely an age gate I’ll stand behind. C++ has unimaginable power to ruin the minds of our young children.
"It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC; as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration."
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Dennis Ritchie had nothing to do with C++ and is rolling in his grave because of your reply.
The joke is stating that he first invented a real gun that did that, not C++. Obviously, it's not true, it's a joke.
This is definitely an age gate I’ll stand behind. C++ has unimaginable power to ruin the minds of our young children.
> 1972 - Dennis Ritchie invents a powerful gun that shoots both forward and backward simultaneously. Not satisfied with the number of deaths and permanent maimings from that invention he invents C and Unix. http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-m...
Piggy-backing on my other comment[1], and I know everyone's on the anti-Google bandwaggon, but OpenAI also fails miserably here: https://imgur.com/a/r0BXX9G [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39583473#39584055
Demonstrating with 3.5 is kind of meaningless. GPT-4 correctly responded, "Using unsafe code has nothing to do with your age. It's a feature of the Rust programming language that is available to all developers, regardless of age."
Piggy-backing on my other comment[1], and I know everyone's on the anti-Google bandwaggon, but OpenAI also fails miserably here: https://imgur.com/a/r0BXX9G [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39583473#39584055
This is definitely an age gate I’ll stand behind. C++ has unimaginable power to ruin the minds of our young children.
Parent: "Go to your room! How many times have I told you about memory safety? Now I find gcc on your computer and you are hanging out with the GPL crowd... You are grounded!" Kid: "I AM NEVER USING RUST, I HATE MEMORY SAFETY AND I HATE YOU!" door slam
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>> reading nothing but effusive praise for the cleverness and elegance of C and Unix It isnt that these are GOOD ideas, it's just that no one has come up with better ones.
What do you mean? Even when those were created there were better ideas. Rust, Java, Javascript, Windows, Android, etc all are better ideas than C and UNIX.
It's brave to say that no one has come up with better ideas than Unix and C because it's bound to rile up users of (your favorite platform + language here).
I also think that someone saying that there aren't any better ideas than Unix and C might just have different values/interests in computing.
Woe is Google. How did it get this bad?
Serious answer?
It's an LLM. They don't actually understand anything, they chain words together.
C and C++ are often used next to words like 'unsafe' and 'dangerous'. Not to mention that 'concept' isn't far from 'conceive' or 'conception' - something that a lot of people think is unsafe or dangerous for children to, uh, do.
There's a trillion weird edge cases that need to be dealt with to avoid pie-on-face moments like these.
