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 @tsarnick
9 Mar 2024
Yuval Noah Harari: we have no idea what to teach young people that will still be relevant in 20 years

Mar 10, 2024 · 12:30 AM UTC

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Some people think our posts about C and Assembly are some kind of political point. We just like the language. And we genuinely want more people writing C and hand-written assembly.
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Would you be willing to hazard a guess as to how long C will be relevant
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Many institutions like @librarycongress @BFI are specifically preserving FFmpeg's source code so that multimedia can be viewed by generations to come. So in theory C will be relevant for millennia.
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Replying to @FFmpeg @WholeMarsBlog
I was talking to my CS prof the other day about this and he said something like he would like to teach C but they teach Python because students could make projects quicker with it which gets them more interested
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Replying to @FFmpeg @niftynei
Truth. (Also, the book I learned from) (:
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based based based
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I agree completely and have produced a free online C course based on the 1978 edition of the K&R C book focused on history and understanding of computer architecture cc4e.com
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Haha good one!
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Shouldn’t this have a NSFW disclaimer on it now that C is 18+ only?
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Is this the official acount from the ffmpeg team? if so I want to say I love the tool, keep it up people
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C is the root of all modern computing, but I also think that basic C++ lets a programmer create almost anything that needs to be created by software. With C++ and OOP a nontrivial project involves creating a custom language where the project’s objective just appears as if my magic.
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Yep. Started my career 35 years ago programming in C, am still doing it today (also C++), and I do believe that 20 years from now, C compilers will still be used. Probably the gcc!
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Bible for programmers.
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One of the best for youth to get introduced with computing 🖥️
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No sé quién maneja redes sociales en @FFmpeg, pero me cae bien 🫂
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Replying to @FFmpeg @RajaXg
People like Yuval Noah Harari who have no knowledge on any subject get big mic to speak but the real experts never get interviewed by the media.
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That’s one of the best books I’ve ever read. C is the foundation for most modern languages.
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Absolutely based ffmpeg pr
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"Contains all the clues necessary to program in C" is how I remember the book described when I learned C from it. It was terse one might say.
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Don't forget Rust, some projects are better fitted to Rust
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or assembly for that matter
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And
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Watch out. Seems like contraband in the US these days.
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See also: beej.us/guide/bgc/ by @beejjorgensen ❤️
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Replying to @FFmpeg @mikko
I got this on recommendation from @davidbombal and Charles Severance back when they did their first video together. I had such a hard time finding it.
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C is forever
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Replying to @FFmpeg @blu_blood_hero
You can't even begin to imagine the programming capabilities of AI in 20 years unless there's a catastrophe to completely stop progress
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The Holy Bible
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You got a cool copy there just like mine, if you don't mind I can come over to ur house and we read it together 👉👈
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This is a crime ffmpeg
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