Aren’t those two the same thing? At least in C-style arrays, which might not be how they’re handled under the hood, but is at least how most languages present it to the programmer.

I doubt it. Other forms of AI could be useful, but generative AI? I doubt it.

And tbh even deep learning through neural networks doesn’t seem to be making the leaps we’d hoped for. AoE4 promised, prior to release, a machine learning–based AI would be delivered down the line. It’s now almost 3 years since release and we haven’t heard a thing about it.

Maybe eventually we’ll be able to easily train a machine learning algorithm to play any game at a wide variety of skill levels (or at a very high level, if not at customisable levels), but it doesn’t seem like it’s any time soon.

See also: Born Sexy Yesterday

It’s a pretty straight forward distinction if you understand words

Fuck me that is brutal. 🤣 I think you need to be imprisoned for murder.

If I’m not being explicitly paid to be on call, I’m not ever even having notifications come through to my phone from anything work-related.

Why are you all overengineering the joke this much?

Because I’m literally an engineer?

Honestly, this isn’t me artificially coming in and doing something weird. It’s just me trying to explain how my brain naturally interpreted it. It never occurred to me to include the left guy’s speech bubble in the race condition until I saw someone else’s comment explaining it.

Why comment here at all

Because we’re programmers, and programmers are infamous for being rules-/logic-driven.

If, as a comment below suggests, the joke is that it’s meant to be read in order 3, 1, 2, that violates the rule that race conditions typically don’t cause an entirely different program to produce the output. So if the joke is meant to be “lol we have a race condition”, bubbles should be mixed up for one person, not mixed between people.

People don’t get the joke because the joke violates its own internal rules.

The image makes perfect sense if you read it in the order 3, 1, 2.

OH!

I was assuming the joke was that 1 and 3 got swapped around. Because it doesn’t really make sense for 2 to be mixed up, considering it’s from a different person entirely…

Which meant that the joke just made no sense, because swapping 1 and 3 is just as nonsense as the original order.