120 Days of Sodom

I am now discovering through these replies that seems to be the case. Maybe it’s a regional thing? im in SE USA

oh interesting - I’ve worked at 4 companies in 10 years, they all called it that.

sfdc (Salesforce dot com) is one of the biggest CRMs in the world and pretty much runs every sales department out there, adp (automatic data processing) is one of the biggest payroll systems in the world.

it’s highly likely you’ve interacted with either or both but maybe in a white-labelled way (e.g. all of Carmax’s computer systems run entirely off Salesforce)

well not in modern parlance but yeah I’m aware it’s an olde timey word

SFDC, IBM, ADP, KKR MYOB are all similarly unpronouncable as singular words.

it has been used as a slur for disabled people.

from the greek “athlon” - prize -> athlein - wanting a prize -> athlētēs- one who competes for a prize -> athleta - Latin version -> modern English (note similarity between athlētēs and athletes)

Although the physical side is culturally connotated, there’s nothing in the strict definition that requires “someone who competes for a prize” to be a physical, e.g. chess, math, science, economics…competitor

I dont need the scientific method not to stick my hand in fire.

And I’ve used AI. Its shit. It don’t work. It makes pure nonsense.

I’ll accept the down votes, but I needed a header image for a work doc that showed a map, and in the background the landscape it was mapping - too specific for a stock photo, but it’s just window dressing in a mostly internal doc - perfect use case for AI!

After 45 minutes of prompting I gave up and made it myself in 20 minutes, and used royalty free no credit needed images.

I mean even Python uses colons for definitions and loops, and going waaay back to BASIC, you still had semicolons and X=10 etc

unless as mentioned you are using Scratch

Probably “structure” would make more sense to a kid. They learn how to diagram sentences, when to use commas and periods etc.

a quick Google returns some projects listed but I didn’t dig in

which is a reskin of 1994’s Shariki which was a version of 1989’s Columns - both made by bedroom solo programmers.