Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/11/16/dale-gribble-on-facebook.html
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Damn right! Dale with it.
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Yeah man, tell ya what, man, that dang ol’ Facebook Twitter social media, man, it’s real easy, ya just go in on there and look at pics and thumbs-up, talk about status updates, mean you got the fake news from Russia and MAGA on there, man, just go Like-Like-Like-Like-Like, man.
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That’s a “real” conspiracy theory that’s been spinning and mutating since the 1970s.
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“Computers don’t make errors. What they do, they do on purpose.”
– Dale Gribble
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Computers do what they are told to do. Nothing more, nothing less.
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The question is who does the telling — that’s all.
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Mine doesn’t. I’ve tried swearing, I’ve tried yelling…
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Facebook? What’s that?
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Somebody hitting you in the Face with a Book.
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People who don’t really know what the stakeholders actually want the computers to do but have to guess based on vague descriptions. ‘Specifications’ scribbled on a wet paper napkin in lipstick or sharpie, etc.
In a way, the Amelia Bedelia books are an introduction to how computers interpret instructions.
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D8dn’t the Rolling Stones make a song about it?
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