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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?

Old habits die hard

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

“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 :-)

As usual, the GOP is laser-focused on the most important matters facing the American public today

He’s not unsure about whether it’s the wrong thing to do, at least not in any sort of moral sense. He’s just not 100% sure he’ll get away with it.

We sometimes like to think of Canada as our nice, quiet, chill & reasonable neighbor here in the States. Occasionally the veil gets lifted like this and reminds us that you’re all dealing with the exact same shit as us. I’m still not sure if that makes me feel better that we’re not alone, or worse because all of this crap we’re dealing with is a growing global problem.

Ummmm…Baldur’s Gate 3, anyone? How about Dragon Age: Veilguard? Those are just off the top of my head.

I just fired Bannerlord back up the other day for the first time in a while. It’s come a long way!

Caveat: I know nothing about 3D printing.

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

siomehing

Perhaps you can link to some of those reputable sources and governments then?

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

Good list! I would probably just also add a battery powered drill.

If it makes you feel better, from a purely environmental perspective, drinking soda from aluminum cans is probably way better than plastic bottles due to higher aluminum recycling rates and much higher efficiency of the aluminum recycling process compared to plastic.

Because I voted early in person