coders know computers are schizophrenic little children with auto-immune diseases

I saw this on reddit ages ago and it still makes me laugh

Was going to say “wants needs to be told what to do exactly” and does exactly that is one of the reasons so many autistic people like myself are into computers.

And then i learned about Amelia Bedelia and i will literally eat my shirt if that isn’t autism coded.

I dislike how the post calls those traits as dumb
, i personaly loath the times i gave exact instructions only for a non autistic to ignore half and gladly show me something that is useless to me. But i do still agree wirh the underlying message.

Computers often do what you said, not what you meant.

Honestly more experience with that might help some people who are habitually unclear in their thinking and communication

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelia_Bedelia

Premise

The stories follow Amelia Bedelia, a maid who repeatedly misunderstands various commands of her employer by taking figures of speech and various terminology literally, with comical results. For example, she interprets a request to “put the lights out” as a request to physically put the light bulbs outside. Other examples include “tag a player out” when playing baseball resulting in her placing an actual tag on the player and then picking up the person to ask how far out they should be.

“Amelias Bedelia” fucking sent my ass lmao

I love AI as digital Amelia Bedelia. Bedeliae?

Great programming motivation post

This is very accurate.

I look forward to the semi-daily posts by one of the regulars at !comicstrips@lemmy.world

EDIT : I was going to post a link to internet archive, but those are all part of some official library collections, so we’re shit out of luck lads

So…stupider than thinking that’s the right pluralization?