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[–] [email protected] 89 points 8 months ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 35 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Time travel is a prerequisite but don't worry, you can just

from __future__ import antigravity
[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Future libraries still makes me laugh.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 8 months ago (2 children)

It's literally this comic, five years and a research team later.

[–] dandroid 6 points 7 months ago

It's funny how solvable that problem is now. I remember seeing that comic, I think over a decade ago now, and thinking about how true it was. It really shows you have far we've come in CS.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

More like all the research teams.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago

"I also sampled everything in the medicine cabinet"

This made me smile.

[–] RobertoOberto 3 points 7 months ago

From the hovertext: "I wrote 20 short programs in Python yesterday. It was wonderful. Perl, I'm leaving you."

After years of a dozen other languages, I finally tried Perl the other day.

Never again, if I can help it.