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Comment Re:Nothing killed the newspaper industry (Score 1) 66

Some of us actually prefer reading stuff on dead trees rather than eye straining screens (e-ink or not).

Yes, some (=few) do that. And hence it is a specialty item. For books, there are now "print on demand" machines that can make single copies cheap enough. But mass-production of books is over or rather will be over when the printing-presses for that reach the end of their lifetime.

Comment Re:Odd assumption in first question (Score 1) 43

Yep, the spec is broken right there. There are already two major cases where this will not be true: (a) no dog at that time and (b) no dog at all, because no customers. Obviously this task was defined by an incompetent that does not understand border cases.

Incidentally, I had some exams in my CS studies where I had to fix the questions because they were broken. Always got the points from the TAs doing the grading in the review, although in one case I had to suggest I could explain why the question was broken to the prof.

Comment Re:Obsolete (Score 1) 43

How long until people quit learning programming languages?

Never. There is tons of advanced stuff where you need that knowledge and were AI cannot do anything because insight is required. If you just do simple coding with CPU and memory overkill and no security requirements, sure, "AI" may do most of it. But that is not the situation in most important projects.

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