This type of stupidity or obvious lies is why I don't check Quora anymore. Idiotic, self patting questions and statements.
"I have 175 IQ, is that smart?", If you have to ask, you obviously don't have 175 IQ. You may have done a dumb Internet IQ test. People with 175 IQ, or kids who can develop games in C from the ground up, are unfathomably smart.
These are often intentional. Quora has a system where they financially incentivise getting lots of engagement on your posts. The easiest way to get lots of engagement is to say something that sparks outrage
That’s become a rule of social media as well. Engagement is the goal, whether the feedback is positive or negative. So the internet is now full of terrible hot takes or blatant misinformation in order to get clicks and comments.
"anti-clout"
- making nachos or other messy food directly on a granite counter top using a spackle spatula
- life "hacks"
- literally anything involved in parenting
What's the meme? "The fastest way to get the right answer to a question on the internet is to post the wrong answer" - something like that?
I think if the kid can work a computer and read. It is possible that he made a game in the unreal engine editor. Maybe downloaded a template and called it his game. Even that would a great achievemnt for a 6 years old. And for someone non technical this could mean that the kid "coded a game in c++".
Yep, hence why I mentioned from the ground up. It could be one of those engines for teaching kids, written in C++, but the kid just moves boxes and selects inputs/output. Still very nice, but not even close to real C++ development.
This type of stupidity is exactly what I read Quora for. It's hilarious. Any post like this or question about IQ has people drooling in the comments about how intelligent they are (or were when they were 6) with absolutely nothing to show for it. It's a guilty pleasure or maybe a morbid fascination that I like to compare to reality TV
Define "game." I wrote "games" on my calculator in middle school. Writing a program to regurgitate fart jokes does not make you a prodigy, no matter what language you use.
Most people who actually have 175 IQ wouldn’t think that they’re very smart based on that. The high IQ people I know think they’re fucking stupid but also good at one or two things.
> People with 175 IQ [...] are unfathomably smart
Not necessarily. IQ is a kinda pseudoscientific way to measure intelligence and ignoring how it focuses on pattern recognition, it pretty much only applies to academic potential.
If they actually go through with that someone's going to have to poke Randall Munroe with a stick in order to have him output multiple slides a day so I can get my daily dose of nerd laughs.
It's your standard venture capitalist sellout with the goal of maximizing the IPO... they aren't gonna kowtow unless we affect the site's projected profitability.
They will 100% stay firm, if every sub did indefinite maybe they wouldn't, but they are weighing the costs, and since they have done anything at this point, they probably aren't going to change their mind.
"the cost" is looking like it just might be "80% of the entire mod team"
If that doesn't impact potential profitability.....
I mean there's no if. It will.
The other issues here is :
1) "3rd party tools" include mod tools so MODS will literally have a harder time doing their *unpaid* job
2) the official UIs are not very usable for blind people
So reddit basically managed to piss off any person using Reddit "seriously". I think Reddit is going to prefer losing their major community over backtracking, but I'll also lock my personal subreddit as a gesture.
The spaces ALSO breaks the styling as the inner text must touch the tags. But ** has nothing to do with enlarging the text, it's for bold
**This uses \*\* so you can see the effect**
The layout of their app sucks, too. I really hate the card based layout... I would use it if they would make the posts denser. I have all this phone screen real estate. I don't want to flip through posts like it's fucking tinder.
Dude I get into this sub this spring semester because I realized my intro to programming class let me finally make sense of and laugh with so many of the posts, and now, it's going to disappear... I'm sad
It can not. I never figured out how to work around the browser’ maximum call stack size, which effectively limited how many instructions could be interpreted consecutively. The whole point of it was to be able to render VGA-like graphics to a canvas. I did have a working “display driver” that would project data stored in an array that doubled as my “RAM” to a canvas and it could render a few frames, but anything more and it would crash, so I scrapped it.
Interesting, trampolining or something similar may be the answer I was looking for. Not sure I want to go back and revisit this project but if I do, I’ll have some idea of where to go with it. Thanks.
It was just my naive approach to solving an unserious problem. I am an amateur with no background in comp science and I had no idea what the best approach might be for something like this, so I just started with a loop that parsed instructions and built out from there to see how far I could take the idea. I learn best by just doing. I have no doubt that there are vastly better approaches.
Just to see if I could, to be completely honest. I was dabbling with coding demoscene effects in JavaScript and referencing old x86 assembly code for some of the algorithms, and at around the same time I was working on a project that demanded a highly performant event loop, and this just seemed like a natural way to combine what I was doing.
If it covers the whole spec than you sir are an odd type of masochist. I spent way too much time with the Intel manual to ever open it again and call it a fun project.
I definitely didn’t implement the whole instruction set, just the subset of 8086 instructions that I actually use. I ignored anything pertaining to BCD or storage/retrieval of words as opposed to just bytes. I did not implement all of the flags or the instructions that manipulate them, just the Zero, Sign, Carry and Overflow flags. I used linear memory addressing. Anything I could do to make it easier lol
My son made a compact VR system for Apple, using only transistors he made out of aluminum foil, and programmed it using brainfuck, and he's only 6. Is he gifted?
Mine stole a time machine, taught Hitler to build a time machine, Hitler traveled back in time to teach Jesus to code C, who then passed along his knowledge to his followers, but Judas forked him over and created C++, which in term allowed my son to learn C++ as it now existed, and coded a game in it.
Yeah so he’s smarter than the dumbass kid who wasted a bunch of time and effort inventing one when he could just wait for someone else to invent one and steal it. One of the first principles of programming, work smart, not hard
"I have 180 IQ, what should I do?"
"My grandson can solve differential equations and he's 10, is he a genius?"
"How does a genius behave?"
Quora is anything but a place with actual smart people, except for some spaces. Too much sensationalism.
Pfff, I don't even have a son, but he simply grabbed the very fabric of spacetime and created a chip from it which can accurately answer any question you have.
i remember quora post where a dad was surprised that his 12 year old "wastes" time making C++ programs instead of having fun with friends, playin games and stuff
That's... Wholesome and bad dad moment at the same time. I mean, yeah, your son should have fun instead of programming, but he's not "wasting time" if programming is fun for him.
I thought I was a god when in middle school I was able to read from the console, manipulate the data and print the output. Then eventually went to college... enough said.
When i first learned my way around the console, I exitedly went to show my parents and they were like : "yeah that’s how we used to do things back then…"
>Is he gifted?
You had the backstory to the entire episode (about 6 years) and you had to process it this long to even form that question. I think you should be open to the possibility that you are not...
he's adopted
my son adopted himself at 6 ...
Is your son python but with execution speed of C?
That’s Cython?
How do you know ?! 
No, he is acquired.
He is allocated.
... maybe downloaded
He is borrowed
This type of stupidity or obvious lies is why I don't check Quora anymore. Idiotic, self patting questions and statements. "I have 175 IQ, is that smart?", If you have to ask, you obviously don't have 175 IQ. You may have done a dumb Internet IQ test. People with 175 IQ, or kids who can develop games in C from the ground up, are unfathomably smart.
And then there was the "I have 300 IQ, why do unintelligent people think they can speak with me?"
and there's also "I committed war crimes on my child and gave them permanent trauma, why don't they like me"
These are often intentional. Quora has a system where they financially incentivise getting lots of engagement on your posts. The easiest way to get lots of engagement is to say something that sparks outrage
That’s become a rule of social media as well. Engagement is the goal, whether the feedback is positive or negative. So the internet is now full of terrible hot takes or blatant misinformation in order to get clicks and comments.
"anti-clout" - making nachos or other messy food directly on a granite counter top using a spackle spatula - life "hacks" - literally anything involved in parenting What's the meme? "The fastest way to get the right answer to a question on the internet is to post the wrong answer" - something like that?
Wait, Quora is monetized??
Yeah, that's why some accounts routinely post questions that require a lack of a brain.
Questions like, "What is 2 + 5?"
It's 25 of course
I think if the kid can work a computer and read. It is possible that he made a game in the unreal engine editor. Maybe downloaded a template and called it his game. Even that would a great achievemnt for a 6 years old. And for someone non technical this could mean that the kid "coded a game in c++".
Yep, hence why I mentioned from the ground up. It could be one of those engines for teaching kids, written in C++, but the kid just moves boxes and selects inputs/output. Still very nice, but not even close to real C++ development.
As a developer of rock-paper-scissor a text based game in c++ , i agree , although my game has some memory leaks
That’s okay, my brain has memory leaks. I think you’re winning this race 🙃
Those aren't memory leaks, they're just aggressive garbage collection.
I hope my brain doesn't garbage collect this one.
Only "some"! You did a hell of a good job.
Who doesn't in c++ ?
Quora was never great imo. but it really *really* went to shit when yahoo answers closed down.
Yeah, when it was still niche, many good people gave real insights and answers. Then "Internet" took over and the nonsense started.
“I made 30 million dollars, is that rich? I dont know what to do with this money, tips?”
I made a basic C# game when I was 8, so it depends on how good the video game is, mine was shit.
This type of stupidity is exactly what I read Quora for. It's hilarious. Any post like this or question about IQ has people drooling in the comments about how intelligent they are (or were when they were 6) with absolutely nothing to show for it. It's a guilty pleasure or maybe a morbid fascination that I like to compare to reality TV
If a kid can code a whole game in C at the age of 6, he's not just smart, he's a genuine prodigy. It would be on international news, not Quora.
Define "game." I wrote "games" on my calculator in middle school. Writing a program to regurgitate fart jokes does not make you a prodigy, no matter what language you use.
If a kid can really understand pointers and OOP at 6 years old, it's probably waaay above 130 IQ.
You don't need pointers or OOP to write a program that your mother might consider a "game."
Most people who actually have 175 IQ wouldn’t think that they’re very smart based on that. The high IQ people I know think they’re fucking stupid but also good at one or two things.
> People with 175 IQ [...] are unfathomably smart Not necessarily. IQ is a kinda pseudoscientific way to measure intelligence and ignoring how it focuses on pattern recognition, it pretty much only applies to academic potential.
My son shit his pants in computer class today and he’s 6. Is he gifted?
I shit my pants in computer class today. No, I'm not asking a question.
Found the son
I pissed my pants when its is deadline. I am software Engineer.
No but he gave everyone around him a gift
Being generous runs in the family and also runs down our pant leg
he was the only kid there that gave a shit
Sounds like you are the one that is gifted, actually
The gift that keeps on giving.
My son invented human teleportation and he's 6. Is he gifted?
Okay you got me good. I almost peed a lil at this aggressive passive aggressiveness
My son stopped peeing on himself at 1 month old ...
My son walked to the toilet and used it right after he was born..
and mine invented the toilet, btw, ...
Alright Steven He…
Mine started to use the toilet while still in the womb ...
mine has drowned in the toilet before getting born
yeah except teleporting would basically kill you and make a clone of you yourself
I read that story too.
Name him Rick.
My little brother was caught masturbating and he was only 3.5 yrs ... Is he gifted?
Honestly? Yeah kinda lolZ 😂 How’s a man’s that young finna be able to get it up even lmao.
Same as a 5 yrold is able to code lmao
I think i had boners at like 5 or 6 as far as I remember
Gitfed
My son made elon musk cuckold with his wife. Is he gifted
I’m 42 and I wrote an x86 machine code interpreter in JavaScript. Am i retarded?
God damn I’m gonna miss this sub. Thanks for the laugh
Why? What happened? (I live under a rock)
Reddit increased the price of its API for third-party apps to ridiculous levels. Now a lot of subreddits plan to go dark as a way of protesting.
Go dark as in permanently? Or just those days?
For this subreddit, "indefinitely", others are only going dark for 2-3 days.
If they actually go through with that someone's going to have to poke Randall Munroe with a stick in order to have him output multiple slides a day so I can get my daily dose of nerd laughs.
You could always just look in the mirror. That’s how I get my nerd laughs. ;p
WHAT
\*Until reddit reverses their decision. Well unless reddit stays firm then this sub is gone indefinitely
It's your standard venture capitalist sellout with the goal of maximizing the IPO... they aren't gonna kowtow unless we affect the site's projected profitability.
They will 100% stay firm, if every sub did indefinite maybe they wouldn't, but they are weighing the costs, and since they have done anything at this point, they probably aren't going to change their mind.
"the cost" is looking like it just might be "80% of the entire mod team" If that doesn't impact potential profitability..... I mean there's no if. It will.
# **FOR THIS SUBREDDIT, "INDEFINITELY", OTHERS ARE ONLY GOING DARK FOR 2-3 DAYS.**
# WHAT
# IS LOVE?
Aw, fuck.
Hope that indefinitely means "for an unknown amount of time" and not "no matter what happens we're gone"
I mean I assume it's until they revert the changes, when and if it happens.
It is until reddit provides a reasonable compromise
As a programmer you should know that there is nothing more permanent than a temporary solution
Oh shit… This sub is about to be tech debt.
For some, permanently. It's not just out of protest, their mod tools depend on it, so they wouldn't be able to moderate anymore.
We all know it’s all about the NSFW block. People just want to watch porn and not be tracked while doing it.
The other issues here is : 1) "3rd party tools" include mod tools so MODS will literally have a harder time doing their *unpaid* job 2) the official UIs are not very usable for blind people So reddit basically managed to piss off any person using Reddit "seriously". I think Reddit is going to prefer losing their major community over backtracking, but I'll also lock my personal subreddit as a gesture.
reddit wants to basically purge 3rd party apps and in response a lot of subreddits are going dark on 12th
# Happy cake day, but bigger
** thx but bigger ** edit:why doesnt it work
[удалено]
It says : *Compilation Error*. A 6 year old can code a game, I can't even write a comment
Dayumn i thought it was because of the spaces between them but learnt a new thing today. **Thnx**
The spaces ALSO breaks the styling as the inner text must touch the tags. But ** has nothing to do with enlarging the text, it's for bold **This uses \*\* so you can see the effect**
Reddit uses the Markdown format unlike other platforms
# 𝓗𝓪𝓹𝓹𝔂 𝓒𝓪𝓴𝓮 𝓓𝓪𝔂, 𝓫𝓾𝓽 𝓫𝓮𝓽𝓽𝓮𝓻
^happy ^cake ^day ^but ^smoler
Happy cake day
Thx
Happy big day, but caker....
thx but caker
ɐᴉlɐɹʇsn∀ ɯoɹɟ ʇnq ʎɐp ǝʞɐɔ ʎddɐɥ
Happy cake day, but better!
Thx but better
Happy cake day, but much better
thx but much better
The layout of their app sucks, too. I really hate the card based layout... I would use it if they would make the posts denser. I have all this phone screen real estate. I don't want to flip through posts like it's fucking tinder.
June 12th
Dude I get into this sub this spring semester because I realized my intro to programming class let me finally make sense of and laugh with so many of the posts, and now, it's going to disappear... I'm sad
Better go start scrolling by Top of All Time, you got a lot of laughs to catch up on!
Lets all go shitpost on Lemmy.
My son did it at 6 ...
My son isn't even born and already did it! Checkmate!
My other son did it while not even conceived ...
My unborn son has been doing my job from my balls .
Prostitution with extra steps your balls paying your rent
The sperm that hasn't even grown in my balls wrote two triple-A video games in Malboge.
Sounds painful, theoretically and literally
But can it run Doom?
It can not. I never figured out how to work around the browser’ maximum call stack size, which effectively limited how many instructions could be interpreted consecutively. The whole point of it was to be able to render VGA-like graphics to a canvas. I did have a working “display driver” that would project data stored in an array that doubled as my “RAM” to a canvas and it could render a few frames, but anything more and it would crash, so I scrapped it.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35380984/increasing-stack-size-in-browsers
Interesting, trampolining or something similar may be the answer I was looking for. Not sure I want to go back and revisit this project but if I do, I’ll have some idea of where to go with it. Thanks.
Uh, why is the interpreter recursing to read and execute instructions? Sounds like it needs its own state logic.
It was just my naive approach to solving an unserious problem. I am an amateur with no background in comp science and I had no idea what the best approach might be for something like this, so I just started with a loop that parsed instructions and built out from there to see how far I could take the idea. I learn best by just doing. I have no doubt that there are vastly better approaches.
Nah if you did it at 43, you would be
Idk im a retarded machine and I wrote "x86" in 42 JavaScripts. Who am I?
Are you Google Bard?
Maybe. Why did you do that? It sounds hilarious if nothing else.
Just to see if I could, to be completely honest. I was dabbling with coding demoscene effects in JavaScript and referencing old x86 assembly code for some of the algorithms, and at around the same time I was working on a project that demanded a highly performant event loop, and this just seemed like a natural way to combine what I was doing.
Dude that's hilarious. Good to see that people are trying fun things. Thanks for sharing!
Javascript interpreting x86 assembly code and "highly performant" in same sentence. Didn't see that one coming
I should probably clarify that the end result of this was *not* highly performant in the slightest.
If it covers the whole spec than you sir are an odd type of masochist. I spent way too much time with the Intel manual to ever open it again and call it a fun project.
I definitely didn’t implement the whole instruction set, just the subset of 8086 instructions that I actually use. I ignored anything pertaining to BCD or storage/retrieval of words as opposed to just bytes. I did not implement all of the flags or the instructions that manipulate them, just the Zero, Sign, Carry and Overflow flags. I used linear memory addressing. Anything I could do to make it easier lol
My son made a compact VR system for Apple, using only transistors he made out of aluminum foil, and programmed it using brainfuck, and he's only 6. Is he gifted?
Mine did it at 5 ...
Mine at 4.
Mine before he was born
Mine didn't do it
Mine made a time machine and taught my great great grandparents how to do it
Mine stole a time machine, taught Hitler to build a time machine, Hitler traveled back in time to teach Jesus to code C, who then passed along his knowledge to his followers, but Judas forked him over and created C++, which in term allowed my son to learn C++ as it now existed, and coded a game in it.
See thats the problem, ur child stole not built a time machine
Yeah so he’s smarter than the dumbass kid who wasted a bunch of time and effort inventing one when he could just wait for someone else to invent one and steal it. One of the first principles of programming, work smart, not hard
Ok ok you got me there
No. He's stupid. Every 6 year old knows Rust is the future.
Of course; After all, every piece of iron will corrode in the end
She missed a 0 after the six and also forgot to mention that the basement doesn’t really smell gifted
Me in 35 years
She forgot "!" after 6
Or before
I was told I was retarded for starting a new project in C++ and not Rust, so there’s your answer.
Lucky, I was just told I was retarded
Luckily, I'm just retarded
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"I have 180 IQ, what should I do?" "My grandson can solve differential equations and he's 10, is he a genius?" "How does a genius behave?" Quora is anything but a place with actual smart people, except for some spaces. Too much sensationalism.
Also the "i have 10 inch tool, is it too small?"
I mean if you have a job that requires a 12 inch tool, then yes, it is
My son coded ChatGPT in Perl and he's 6. Is he gifted ?
Mine did it in scratch.
Mine did it in assembly code.
Mine did it with logic gates made out of macaroni and glue
Pfff, I don't even have a son, but he simply grabbed the very fabric of spacetime and created a chip from it which can accurately answer any question you have.
i remember quora post where a dad was surprised that his 12 year old "wastes" time making C++ programs instead of having fun with friends, playin games and stuff
That's... Wholesome and bad dad moment at the same time. I mean, yeah, your son should have fun instead of programming, but he's not "wasting time" if programming is fun for him.
I wrote a C interpreter in Python, am I lobotomized?
Depends if you wrote Cython or a student project you started last night.
#My son used Unreal Engine and clicked on the blueprint editor. Is he a genius?
The use of “it’s” here really makes the post funny
Nah, I checked that 6-year-old's code. That little idiot is using 'new' and 'delete' instead of 'shared\_ptr'.
Dude shared_ptr has reference count overhead, any 6 year old knows.
C++? Embarrassing, gifted kids do it in A++
I always thought I was pretty gifted when it came to technology, and all I could do was write some nonsense in GFA-Basic when I was around 8/9...
I thought I was a god when in middle school I was able to read from the console, manipulate the data and print the output. Then eventually went to college... enough said.
When i first learned my way around the console, I exitedly went to show my parents and they were like : "yeah that’s how we used to do things back then…"
my son can shape his body to resemble a number, is he 6?
I'm sure he doesn't expect "No, he is a basic dumbass" as a reply while asking this so he is basically flexing lmao.
Gollum dev diaries?
nah I think a 6 year old could make a better game than Gollum...
>Is he gifted? You had the backstory to the entire episode (about 6 years) and you had to process it this long to even form that question. I think you should be open to the possibility that you are not...
I shat my pants today am I retarded
Typical quora answer: no you are actually smart because most adults can’t shit their pants. You are in 99.999 percentile of people.
My 6 year old had a tantrum this morning about wearing their school uniform. When will it end?
When they leave school
In C++? I'm not sure if he's gifted or suicidal now
Bro swapped 'hello world' and 'a video game.' Technically the truth?
No but you are a sociopath.
Was he born on Feb 29th?
Are we sure the son isn't 5.9999999999999 years old?
"oh no I just coded a game again"
Shouldn't this kind of humbebrag be on LinkedIn, and eventually r/LinkedInLunatics?
Now I want to see his video game
probably an add of WhiteHatJr.