Gumby

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 :-)

Caveat: I know nothing about 3D printing.

That being said, couldn’t you just print it on its side?

I also just tried random codes and sometimes I got lucky and stumbled across something cool

Those are my favorites - “Why doesn’t everybody in my company want to work 80 hour weeks and never take vacation, like I do?” Geez, maybe it’s because they don’t own the fucking company and there is absolutely no benefit to them to work themselves to death? They’re not the ones making more money just because they’re increasing company profits.

I ran into this when I was thinking about buying some Doc Martens recently. I know there have been other examples, that’s just the most recent I can remember.