Apepollo11

I remember you from several months ago. I see from this post, you've not taken onboard any of the help and advice from last time.

Either that, or this is just a trolling account you turn to every now and again when you're bored.

You've decided to leave Lemmy after being downvoted for posting links to conspiracy videos disguised as a question?

FWIW, I didn't downvote you, but surely you must see why other people have?

I'll provide some similar examples, hopefully you can see the problem.

"Is it true that deep down women really want to be treated as slaves? These Andrew Tate videos raise some compelling points. Link. Link"

"Is it true that black people are trying to wipe out the white race by diluting the purity of our bloodline? Here are some convincing videos. Link. Link."

Obviously these examples are worse than yours, but they're exactly the same form. Nobody wants that kind of thing in their feed. Nobody wants to be asked to watch tinfoil-hat crackpot garbage before they can properly answer a question.

With the failure rate SpaceX is hitting with their Starships, that problem would likely take care of itself.

100%

"Cooking is art, baking is science"

With very simple recipes, e.g. white bread, you might get away with it.

The more ingredients you add, the more chance something won't behave quite as it should.

Some religions.

At-will employment too.

"You're nothing special - easily replaceable. I'm doing you a favour by letting you have this job."

Basically anywhere where a power imbalance is an intended feature, not a necessary evil.

Maybe

I promise I'm not trying to wind you up, but I'm not sure what the first sentence means - sorry!

As for the second, there're five countries that identify as communist right now - but I'm sure you're aware of that, otherwise you wouldn't have put that caveat in the original question.

No it isn't. There isn't a difference.

You asked for an example of a "FULL COMMUNIST" country.

I'm saying that no-one can for exactly the reason you can't name a fully democratic country or a fully capitalistic country.

The truth is people are messy and the world is messier still.

There are no anything countries.

Show me a true democracy, a wholly capitalist country, an entirely anything country. There aren't any.

This is the reality of living in a complicated world - nothing is black and white.

That's fair, but I'm not arguing that it's a higher-level language. I was trying to illustrate that it's just to help people code more easily - as all of the other steps were.

If you asked ten programmers to turn a given set of instructions into code, you'd end up with ten different blocks of code. That's the nature of turning English into code.

The difference is that this is a tool that does it, not a person. You write things in English, it produces code.

FWIW, I enjoy using a hex-editor to tinker around with Super Famicom ROMs in my free time - I'm certainly not anti-coding. As OP said, though, AI is now pretty good at generating working code - it's daft not to use it as a tool.

It's just a greater level of abstraction. First we talked to the computers on their own terms with punch cards.

Then Assembly came along to simplify the process, allowing humans to write readable code while compiling into Machine Code so the computers can run it.

Then we used higher-level languages like C to create the Assembly Code required.

Then we created languages like Python, that were even more human-readable, doing a lot more of the heavy lifting than C.

I understand the concern, but it's just the latest step in a process that has been playing out since programming became a thing. At every step we give up some control, for the benefit of making our jobs easier.

Maybe closer to the nuke-wielding Gandhi from the Civilization games than the real one...

The views on him are mixed depending on exactly what lines you think can reasonably be crossed for the sake of protecting America's interests.

In Kissinger's tenure as Secretary of State, there were very few lines that he considered uncrossable - extending into tacit endorsement of actions that are accurately classed as war crimes.

The carpet-bombing of Cambodia, the peacetime kidnapping and murder of a Chilean general, actual military support for a genocide campaign in what is now Bangladesh - all this and more.