@irene I did, I am just not sure why you chose those things.
suppose we make a solar powered computer with bit of software that keeps recreating itself .. this kind of meets your conditions but I doubt you'd call it alive?

@irene hmm .. maybe the whole definition of life is a bit meaningless .. almost like selecting a set of things and calling them X, then wondering what else might fit in X .. which is not very well defined and kind of inconsequential

maybe conscious is the actual thing that has consequences (whether a software becomes conscious is a bit more meaningful)

@neriald the definition of "afraid" is subjective, how can you tell if something is actually afraid? i.e. characters in a game might appear afraid of death and behave very close to how a human might, in the limited context of the game ... I think there is a big part of life attributed to being conscious, which in itself is something we assume and cannot really measure, so we only measure the behavior that suggests something is afraid of death, which is relatively simple to simulate

@irene I mean the property that soemthing is alive is not either true or false, it's more like each thing has a numeric value of how "much" alive it is

the assumption that a thing is either alive or not might be inaccurate .. life is a decimal not a bool, imo

after? no, no .. we'll have a quantum neural blockchain python library that runs on a javascript transpiler on nodejs, wears a hoodie and shuts down your home electricity to give you a truly dark theme ... oh and it's in the cloud for good measure

the ICE is melting

put a mirror in front of the screen

the guilt of the empty catch and the panacea of the //todo .. we should just start using /* nice catch! */

@lxmcf that's the opposite of the cat though 🤔

 

and if the item that's most fun is the closest to being done, we can have a half day

@heyheni 🤐

move that machine to the smoking room and call it a cloud

clean code with bugs vs. dirty code that works..
when those are the only feasible options picking the latter sounds sensible

you tried locations other than the Users folder? like on the root of a secondary drive or a folder in the root of C?
trying File.Open or File.RealAllText might be a good test as well
You can also look at the security permissions on the folder and give read access to all users

G++

wonder what else is in Applicant other than Person 🤔

http://www.saasbook.info/courses

I think some people just code their direct sequence of thoughts .. they think "if x equals y, then I want to set the result to true, otherwise it'll be false" as opposed to "the result indicates whether x is equal y"

I choose not to believe that 🙈🙉🙊

1. welcome to devrant
2. this is unlikely, are you saying you can hit a breakpoint before Console.ReadLine, step through the code, and it would just jump past that statement?

hmm .. is it not kind of like going to the pharmacy and asking for a cough medicine? the pharmacist doesn't ask you to explain how the medicine will cure the cough symptoms, they don't tell you that it's all molecular interactions and not magic, so you gotta explain it ... you probably don't know nor care, you just want your cough to stop..

I get that customers should know their business domain, but not the technical aspects, nor the UI/UX

the horror

++ for "soft people" .. I think I'll start using that

"glitch causes radio to switch on randomly" <-- boring
"alexa starts playing music randomly" <-- AI, singularity, we're doomed, the robots will take over

without the comment I would have thought the function is "alter a senha"
so.. yeah

because C# is nice

I read step 2 as "donate it to someone with *detachable* IQ level"

now I'm deep in thought about the possibilities and effects of detachable IQ's

"and since our nation is in need of medical advances, we have decided to detach all IQ's over 130 and attach them to our doctors"

"NO, you will not detach my IQ.. aaaaaa... bo bo goo gaaa"

saying Visual Basic devs are not real devs is like saying serial killers are not humans.. you might wish it was true but you know it isn't