Gumby

That’s nice for him. He does love being given awards. Even when it’s an award that someone else won.

Why is it even a text input in the first place?

Honestly my biggest issue with this is that it seems to be a pretty clear sign (in addition to the other blatantly obvious signs like various public comments, selling Trump 2028 gear on his website, etc) that he has no intention of ever leaving the White House, term limits be damned. He’s just not the type of person to do major work like that if he’s expecting to move out and no longer be able to enjoy it himself in a few years.

I prefer the extended versions every time, but there are a few scenes here & there that do slow down the pacing a bit. However, the “Concerning Hobbits” intro to hobbits and The Shire at the beginning of Fellowship should have absolutely been included in the theatrical version. It sets the stage so much better and really drives home just how much of an idyllic life the hobbits are forced to leave behind.

And hot dog flavored water!

Well shit, I’ve never seen AoC before - I’m not usually very interested in programming just for fun, but I might give that a try!

Former cameraman if that’s the case

It seems that AI really is good for some things after all

I agree with your main point, although I think your example of COBOL being used to this day in financial institutions is actually the opposite problem. The guys that originally developed that shit were damn good programmers, but they were severely constrained by the available hardware, limitations of the language, etc. So they had to get really clever in order to make these massive, complicated systems work. In my experience, those really old legacy systems tend to be rock solid with near 100% uptime and almost no errors. They’ve never been rewritten because doing so would be a multi-year effort costing millions of dollars, and the end result would be a system that is most likely slower, buggier, and has less functionality.

TLDR: The old COBOL systems are unmaintainable messes not because of incompetent developers, but because the limitations of the available technology when they were originally developed forced a bunch of really good devs to have to get extremely creative and hacky with their solutions.

Holy shit, have we worked with the same guy?

Don’t

Sure, they should. But that’s not the world we live in.

Give it a watch. I binged the entire show in 2-3 days when I had COVID a couple months ago

Kids these days…when I was a kid, we organized our own fight clubs - no adults necessary!

Old habits die hard

It’s fine, you only ever need to replace it like once a decade or so

They were put there by a man

“Clearly” is also subjective. What might be perfectly clear to me reading my own code may be really confusing to someone else, and vice versa. Especially if the person reading the code isn’t as familiar with the language as the person who wrote it, or if the code is using some syntactic sugar that isn’t super common, or plenty of other reasons.

I wish my brain worked half as well as guys like that.

Yes. And also comments :-)