Vic 20 was my first. I watched my dad struggle with and eventually give up on assembly. Something-something and the microbots. I was fearful of it until I took Assembly at Uni. That 2nd/3rd year class was where the final puzzle piece of how computers work fell in place for me.
My first job was writing assembly tests for a DSP hardware design team. Fell in love. Never looked back.
Could probably replace managers with AI, but being trained on most managers would mean it would be equally bad at its job.
I think the most likely is for the artists jobs to go away as art doesn’t have to be exact, but code does.
I assume they all share the same Tandy 1000 to IRC with hot-singles in their area.
Grizzled police-chief: get me those IP addresses
Nerd: setting up the back-trace now, wait, the ip is 127.0.0.1
Grizzled police-chief: don’t give me that geek-talk poindexter, speak english
[Zoom in]
Nerd: the post was coming from inside the station.
[No one is shocked]
fin.
To be clear, my view is that “stop and frisk” is a license that a racist system sought to legitimize their racist actions.
I guess my sarcasm didnt come through in my post, but does anyone really think that “random” stop and frisk would have stopped this attack?
Maybe if the cops could just stop and frisk anyone on the street anytime they feel like it, everything would be ok?
Instructions unclear, car stuck in ceiling fan