I’m really pissed off, younger programmers are lazy and stupid. Witness this fediverse post and know this turkey maintains apt.

I don’t want this skank anywhere near code that I use. I code using these guidelines, first promulgated by Larry Wall, the creator of the Perl programming language.

The laziness he speaks of is not turning over your obligation to write good, useful programs to an AI slop merchant. If you’re being judged by the amount of code generated in the least amount of time, whoever manages you needs to be halved and quartered. Your code, or the AI slop you’re responsible for ought to get you pariah status. Never trust this fool with anything remotely useful.

I think Codeberg and Daniel Stenberg have the right attitude about AI slop.

And Linus Torvalds is one of the newest converts to AI slopification. Between apt going into the shitter and Linux following, it’s time to scope out the BSD clones out there. So far they’re not jumping off an AI cliff, as far as I can tell. Fuck Linux and the slopification taking place.

I’m so pissed off I can barely think.

And if you’re wondering by the word skank, see definition two

skank /skăngk/
noun

1. A rhythmic dance performed to reggae or ska music, characterized by bending forward, raising the knees, and extending the hands.
2. One who is filthy or foul.
3. One who is considered to be sexually promiscuous. Used especially of a woman.
   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition • More at Wordnik

It seems that the visual scheme I chose for the blog isn’t the most intuitive. To see comments on a post , you must click on the title to display the post and comments. Check out the posts on Brainfuck and Brainfuino especially.

Posting drafts that have been lying around too long, maybe you will find them useful.

Well, I went out on a limb and bought a book with the title “Data Science From Scratch” by Ramon Base. It’s a 155 page brief overview of the challenges of learning data science. And I’m being generous to say it’s 155 pages as the typeface is huge and the text is set doublespaced , so it’s really about a 50-70 page book.

A better use of your time is the rather extensive course at https://applieddatascience.cmp.uea.ac.uk/01/1/ch1_intro.html. It’s aimed at older students or at least, more advanced 13-14 year olds, since it’s aimed at college students from what I can tell.

I found this site to be a useful brainfuck resource: https://esolangs.org/wiki/Brainfuck. But beware, the site only seems to be sporadically available, with lots of 500 error codes generated by web pages accesses.

Yes, the website name implies we mostly do object oriented programming, but that hasn’t been the only paradigm that we work in. I first started playing with Clojure around 2011, and now work in Scala, and Haskell too. Scala and Clojure mostly run on top of the JVM, so it behooves you to have an updated JVM.