#computer programming

[foone]

So a cool thing my granddad* Alan Turing figured out is Turing Equivalence:

Basically he designed a super simple hypothetical computer, and proved mathematically that it can do everything a more complicated computer can do, just maybe slower or faster.

This is normally brought up for the factoid that could run Doom on Xty Million Crabs, but it also applies to programming languages, not just computers.

See, it means that every programming language is equally "powerful", assuming it's Turing Complete (which is basically just "can do the things this minimal computer can do", which is basically every language except a couple simple theming languages and macro scripting systems), it's just easier or harder to do specific things in a given language. But they can still be done.

So this means the C/C++ your OS and browser was written in is just as powerful as everything else. The Java used for Minecraft and Android phones, the Javascript used for webpages, the C# used Unity, the BASIC used on 80s computers, and DickCode, the joke programming language I made as a university student which had only eight operators, but all eight were different ascii penises a la "8==D".

All equally powerful. You could write an OS, video game, or AI bot in any of these. It just might be a little slower or faster and easier or harder to do (especially DickCode, that one is very Hard).

Aren't computers neat?

*not my actual granddad but I am named Turing

[thewitchoftherock]

This woman is Dr. Grace Murray Hopper. She created the first computer language compiler tools to program the Harvard Mark I computer. This computer was used in WWII after 1944. John von Neumann initiated the computer's first program, but Hopper invented the codes

[noizepushr]

There are three types of coding bugs:

1. Oopsie! I messed up that syntax! Silly me, let me fix up that typo

2. Oh god I never concidered this scenario I’m going to need to do so much work in order to account for it and fix this oversight fuck me

3. Where the fuck is it?!?!?! I cannot concieve of a way this could have gone wrong and neither have all ten of my peers. A phantasm has possessed my code and will not leave

[bynux]

/* Filename: Discipline.scala */ for (i <- 1 to 1000) { println( f"$i%4d: I will not use code to cheat." ); } // >:3

[basic-retro-programming]

Programmieren in Basic: Computergeschichte

Post #309: Heimcomputermuseum.de, Programmieren in Basic, Ein Streifzug durch die Computergeschichte, 2024.

[nando161mando]

[hotfudgecherryrosy]

Hi! Little update on the Quizlet-like app, henceforth known and tagged as Innaflash. (One of my friend's ideas, and I'm a sucker for puns :) )

Tl;dr of below is i'd like opinions on the UI mockup so far, maybe some alternative color theme ideas.

No coding has happened yet, but I started making a UI mockup to get the brain juices going and also bc i just love messing around with color themes and graphic design, hee hee. I think I'm going with a webcore theme. Default will be purple, but there will be the option to change the theme (i already have the code for this so it's easy to implement). A couple images are above, I'd like to hear what you all think :)

[thelonelybluejay]

3/10/2025 - B-Sides Progress

Goal: start putting together the music journal in Godot

Notes: I had so much trouble with importing the Flutter package into VSCode that I had to switch to a whole other way to code this project. Off to a great start!

Reflection: I'm writing this reflection a week later, but I think godot is definitely giving me a lot more room to do what I need to. I have some basic UI right now that I need to write some code for, and then the "journal" section will be done. All in all, I'm optomistic.

[ihavenomoralsss]

Python is such a cool name for something that’s actually terrible and mean

[mechanical-moron]

Programmers, Web designers, game developers, anyone else who does stuff with numbers on a computer screen.....curious to know if you guys ever dream in code, and if so, do you like it? I for one do not find it to be particularly enjoyable but want to hear what others have to say lol.

[ryan-is-a-god]

The only way to get work done is to play the most dramatic playlist of all time and become the monster you tried to avoid.

[sleepybutalrightiguess]

I'm making pong and accidentally made a screensaver

This has been going on for several minutes.

[arconinternet]

Blunders in Personal Computing (Video, David Ahl, 2009)

A speech about home computer history's greatest screwups. You can watch it here.

You can read Ahl's 1974-1985 computer magazine, Creative Computing, here, and you can read his BASIC type-in books here.

[h3ll0-my-n3me-is]

do you think computers are deserving of affection ?

[ indeed I think computers are the most efficient and useful piece of technology to date . ! Of course they aren’t done surprising us yet, the economy is growing delightfully due to these boxes of heaven . ! ! ]

[ well actually it depends on if they do their jobs . . ]

[bynux]

My gender is a poorly written C program, in which a target 35–60% of the dedicated memory is assigned to femininity, 10–20% to masculinity, and the remaining 20–55% defaults to androgyny.

Its goal is to maintain a state such that femininity is at least the plurality, if not the majority, of the memory space, but occasionally it fails to do that for code reasons? idk I didn't program it and it's not open-source ._.

Observe:

[root@bryn ~ ]$ genderinfo Bryn's Current Gender Composition Femm - 40% [WARN] (LOW) Masc - 15% [ OK ] Andr - 45% [WARN] (HIGH) Closest estimation - enby, femme-leaning [root@bryn ~]$ _