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  • NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.detoProgrammer Humor@lemmy.mlbase 10
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    1 day ago

    Two possible solutions to this:

    1. Always use a single digit for the base. Examples: binary is base 2, decimal is base A (because A=10 in bases higher than decimal), hexadecimal is base G.
    2. Use the highest digit plus one. Examples: binary is base 1+1, decimal is base 9+1, hexadecimal is base F+1.

    … or we just continue to agree that bases are always written in base 10 decimal unless specified otherwise. By the way, how does the alien speak English?



  • I’m pretty sure that generally some particles break off from either side whenever you cut something in half. When I cut paper with scissors I get a distinct smell, that’s clearly paper particles that have escaped into the air. Under the right conditions you may even see some dust.

    When using a saw it is very explicitly removing material to create a gap between the two sides. You can see this clearly in a lot of woodworking videos on YouTube. For other tools like a knife, it’s not as obvious, but I still think some material will inevitably be lost no matter what you do.

    Maybe some extremely specialized nano-scale methods can cut things without losing material, but I doubt that’s something you can do on an everyday life scale.

    Disclaimer: I’m not an expert and I did 0 research, just giving my opinion and personal knowledge (which may be wrong).








  • Now, hold on a minute. I get what you’re doing and I like it, but I don’t think those first 2 examples work.

    Visual programming is programming. Were they really ever touted as not requiring programmers? I would think it’s just marketed as more intuitive and easier to use for certain applications, but users are still referred to as programmers. Let me know if I’m wrong. Side note: my first programming language was LabVIEW, a visual programming language, which I used in high school to program our robot for FRC. It is, for all intents and purposes, a fully-fledged programming language and requires a programmer to create code for it.

    MDA, honestly I don’t know much about it, but from the description in the image it sounds like it still requires someone to “write a universal model”… did they try to claim that that someone would not be a programmer?