• MasterBlaster@lemmy.world
    11·
    10 hours ago

    No. The proper term is GEEK. Needs are uncoordinated, awkward, have no fashion sense, and occasionally tape their broken glasses (or say sheepishly, “did I do that?”)

    Geeks have in-depth, we’ll researched knowledge on topics that are obscure to the “mundanes”, have intellectual curiosity, and sometimes gain in wealth as a result. In many cases, they tend to make non-geeks (and geeks for other topics) completely befuddled. This sometimes results in insecurity on the part of non-geeks, which negatively impacts their social lives. On rare occasions, such geeks are so over the top smart that they transcend such petty attitudes (see: Neil deGrasse Tyson)

  • omega_x3@lemmy.world
    2·
    2 days ago

    Wow I’m an old engineer nerd. I feel so exposed. Zero is nothing always start at one for life.

  • TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org
    25·
    4 days ago

    Cobol: you are old, and a nerd, and probably making some sweet cheddar right now propping up a mid to late 20th century beast somewhere.

    Assembly: you are a cyborg.

    • anomnom@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      10·
      3 days ago

      Assembly: you are a cyborg.

      Or programming a tiny microcontroller to blink a led as efficient as possible.

      • TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org
        7·
        3 days ago

        Something wrong with:

        #include <Arduino.h>


void loop()  {
digitalWrite(13, HIGH);
delay(1000);
digitalWrite(13, LOW);
delay(1000);
}

        ? 😂🤮

        • Scrath@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          11·
          3 days ago

          Obviously the only correct way to blink an LED is to use a hardware timer to trigger a DMA transfer which stores a bit in the pin toggle register at a set interval

          • anomnom@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            2·
            3 days ago

            yeah! Or or use the interrupt pins and a 555 timer! both options are better than python though at least.

  • echolalia@lemmy.ml
    16·
    3 days ago

    R

    We can reject the null hypothesis that you are not a nerd at significance $\alpha < 0.001$.

    oh wait, shit let me run that again, my data frame is full of NA somehow, again.

  • QuazarOmega@lemy.lol
    24·
    4 days ago

    I know who made this included React and HTML specifically to trigger us programmers, to that I say… well played >:(

    • MasterBlaster@lemmy.world
      1·
      9 hours ago

      Nah, too relevant, what with LUA, functional programming, currying, and AI, et. al. ;)

      I did an AI robot arena bot in college using Lisp. That was interesting.

    • Log in | Sign up@lemmy.world
      6·
      3 days ago

      As a haskell nerd, I feel that I have the moral authority to declare you king of the nerds.

      “Ha! You think your language has macros? You call that a macro?! This list processing code is a list of tokens, why wouldn’t it be able to edit itself?”

      It breaks my brain.

        • Log in | Sign up@lemmy.world
          1·
          2 days ago

          Absolutely. It’s just that less fuss is being made about it on hacker news because the cool kids say you’ll be a better programmer in other languages if you learn rust when they used to say that you’ll be a better programmer in other languages if you learn haskell.

          With stack (consistent package version snapshot database based project starter and build tool) instead of cabal, you get the transferable and repeatable build benefits of docker with none of the hassle. Just stack new at the start and stack build or stack repl during development. Nothing gets bitrotten any more.

            • Log in | Sign up@lemmy.world
              1·
              13 hours ago

              I’ve addressed both popularity (waned - rust is the cool new difficult-to-learn principled language now) and bitrottenness (rock solid). I’m not sure what else you were meaning if it wasn’t either of these.

      • wer2@lemm.ee
        4·
        3 days ago

        When they said, “Don’t write self modifying code”, they obviously didn’t mean me! /s