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panic (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 1 month ago by not_IO to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

https://defcon.social/@fortyseven/116279569744717982

i miss when the law was trying to seem serious

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[-] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 89 points 1 month ago
[-] verdare@piefed.blahaj.zone 46 points 1 month ago

I don’t see a call to fork(), so there’s clearly no child here.

[-] elvith@feddit.org 19 points 1 month ago
bool isChild() {
  pid_t result= fork()
  return (result == 0)
}
[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

Nope. The check should be in a while loop

[-] username_1@programming.dev 38 points 1 month ago

Correct code:

int getAge()
{
    return 6578;
}
[-] ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 month ago

Le Website: Wow, what are the odds this person using MY WEBSITE was born in 1900 on January 1st? They must be the oldest person in the world!

Le me: is 14

[-] lime@feddit.nu 30 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
def verify_age(u: User) -> bool:
    return hasattr(u, "age") and u.age is not None
[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

Unacceptable. All my friends are None

[-] lime@feddit.nu 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

*to the tune of California Dreamin'*

[-] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago
[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 4 points 1 month ago

Anything under 25 should be considered a child.

[-] org@lemmy.org 20 points 1 month ago

People over 65 should be banned from voting, driving, and accessing the internet

Just like a child.

[-] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

Not everyone's brain degrades at the same rate.

[-] org@lemmy.org 13 points 1 month ago

True. Not every 12 year old is too dumb to vote.

[-] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Anyone > 65 should be considered senile until proven different. After all, it's not kids that get scammed out of their retirement funds.

That's not my opinion, but it might lead to changes.

[-] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago

Kids don't have retirement funds. If they did, and they had free access to them, they would definitely get scammed out of them.

[-] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 6 points 1 month ago

That's pretty much what I wrote, just lacking the sarcasm.

[-] CanadaPlus@futurology.today 10 points 1 month ago

There seems to be a real tendency to want to narrow the band of what a functioning adult is, centered right around whatever age the poster happens to be at.

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

The reason that 25 number came up is that's how old the cohort they were studying brain development got when their funding was cut. There's no reason to not believe brains continue developing all our lives, or that even if that study did find a "cut off point" that it would be the same from person to person.

[-] bluejayway@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 month ago

sure, not like people under 25 need to work, pay rent, take care of their own finances and responsibilities, or anything. we’re all just kids living with our parents and when we turn 25, we magically become adults! oh, wait…

[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I just find the arbitrary line drawn at 18 to be ridiculous. So, the second you turn 18 you magically become an adult. OK.

And now it's time to judge societies that decide 16 means adult, or 20 means adult, or 25 means adult.

Was it the US that just decided for us that "18 means your adult"? Why should they get to decide that? Based on what criteria?

[-] CodiUnicorn@programming.dev 4 points 1 month ago

"I fear no man. But that thing, it scares me."

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