Actually, you make a pretty good point there.

Whence the skepticism?

Ok i doubt anyone is going to be willing to have this discussion, but here i am.

You’re right; here I was enjoying a silly comic–written in 2011–about computers turning programming into human daycare, and someone had to turn it into yet another excuse to start talking about AI, as if we didn’t have enough of that!

What did you think it stood for?

Yeah, at that point they gave up on getting the emu to have the correct number of toes and decided to go ahead and ship it.

My favorite part is how this meme itself consists entirely of plain text plus a little styling.

By handwriting raw lambda calculus.

My species uses e as its base because that is proven to be mathematically optimal. In our number system, humans use base 2.3025850… (but written entirely as powers of e using our far superior elegant notation, of course!)

Nah, presumably the developer already has an operating system and just needs a text editor.

And what is the best tool for the job? The best tool for the job.

At least it’s Not Unix.

I think that the problem here is that you are assuming that the wording was carefully crafted to mean something precise when in fact it was just thrown together sloppily. 😆

I do not see the causal connection you are seeing in the meme at all. I just see it pointing out that now is a particularly bad time for Electron apps to be so dominant, which is true.

Ah, that was some clever wordplay, given that one of the definitions of capital is “of or pertaining to the head”!

most people only have empathy for their immediate family and friends. that’s normal.

Speak for yourself.

There are so many extraordinarily hard problems that need to be solved that I worry you are setting yourself up with false hope.

…though my personal recommendation is that you don’t.

The votes needed for removal is actually 66%, which is even harder, but otherwise I concur.

No point in putting the lit torch away when you can use it to roast meanwhile!

Oh, cool! I did not know that.