- funkajunk@lemm.eeEnglish1 year
God forbid we actually rehabilitate people instead of profiting off of their enslavement and not actually giving a shit if they get better or not.
- bleistift2@sopuli.xyzEnglish1 year
Paraphrasing a Scandinavian who gave an interview I once saw in a TV documentary about the correction system in some nordic country:
Once that perpetrator gets out of prison and rents an apartment next to you, would you rather he was subject to inhumane punishment? Or would you rather he was treated like a human being and learned how to behave in society?
- Kitathalla@lemy.lolEnglish1 year
Heh, the amerikkkan answer is simple: don’t let them rent next to you. They’ve accomplished it by ridiculous rent prices, charging inmates to be in jail (so they come out with debt), and shackling them to low paying jobs.
- 1 year
There’s gotta be less cruel ways to rehabilitate people, though.
I’m kidding. Welcome reformed convicts, to the wonderful and awful world of coding!
It’s even more absurd as surely the objective should be to have less victims of crime, so doing whatever gets that result seems logical.
A lot of people’s concept of justice isn’t based on logic. Rehabilitation makes more sense logically, but retribution feels better.
- 1 year
I got this. For those that don’t, search about reiserfs and the author’s criminal history.
- 1 year
They’ve already got the requisite skills for Unix
man killpkill -P <parent_pid> —signal SIGKILLkillall -9
Impossible! You mean to say… prisoners are just human beings?! Preposterous! Ludicrous, even!
- 1 year
Ahhh a fellow American I see.
Justice is “just us” and is exclusively meant to maximize misery.
- 1 year
Given that prisons are an industry in the States and that inmates are one of their main sources of cheap labor, the high recidivism rate is there to maximize profits.
- roofuskit@lemmy.worldEnglish1 year
They’re not allowed to teach Java. Otherwise they’ll be referred to the ICC for crimes against humanity.
Pursue a particle physics degree
Source: I’ve been at my masters thesis for two years please kill me
Huh… Not my intention.
I wasn’t wishing them success with their thesis /s
- 1 year
No. For several reasons.
Fortran is older than Basic and C. In fact, Fortran is more or less the first high level programming language. The first Fortran compilers date to the early 1950s.
Fortran was created mainly for the purpose of linear algebra: operations with (giant) matrices. Linear algebra is used to compute approximate solutions to ordinary and partial differential equations, and this is a major part of what people needed computers for (and still do).
Programming concepts like subroutines, functions, if statements with blocks and else clauses… All of those were not in original Fortran because no one had thought of them. These things entered Fortran over time as they became popular, and goto slowly became less popular. Syntax from the punch card era was replaced in Fortran 90, but it is still available as an option for compatibility purposes.
Structurally, I prefer to describe Fortran as like C, but with better built-in arrays, and no built-in general purpose pointers. Not having the pointers allows the compiler to do certain optimizations that C can’t. But C is the better systems language, because the pointers let you naturally express all kinds of data structures besides arrays.
The sentence should scale with the crime. Nonviolent burglars and minor frauds could be taught Python, more serious crimes could get Go, whereas the most depraved offenders could be sentenced to C++
Not envious of that serial killer having to decide between Assembly and Haskell
- 1 year
The real reason Hannibal Lecter broke out was he had to write Clojure in Notepad
- Spacehooks@reddthat.comEnglish1 year
One of guys that retired wrote all his code in notepad. He also did debugging by printing all the code on paper. Like wtf there are other options!
- 1 year
You are hereby remanded to upgrade a legacy Java 1 system, written by interns, to Java 8. May God have mercy on your soul.
- MochiGoesMeow@lemmy.zipEnglish1 year
Maybe they can teach them to maintain the Linux wireless drivers.
if you get sent there for computer crimes you might get the worst sentence: Teaching those “tech skills.”
