Gumby

Reads along…yep, yep, yep…wait - Temple of Doom???

There’s been a ton of back and forth finger pointing but the more I hear about it (and other news about Krafton), the more my gut tells me that Krafton are the bad guys.

OP shouldn’t be doing it even if they are a licensed plumber, since it’s the landlord’s responsibility, not theirs. Even if they know what they’re doing, it opens up legal liability.

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.

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!

But that’s 11 words!

Ten word requirement

It’s an interesting test

This one’s successful

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?

There was a guy that was the owner’s favorite at a place I worked years ago. Among all the other shit he would regularly get away with, one time he wrote all over the door to another employee’s office with a highlighter. Since that shit’s permanent, the door had to be repainted. This guy owns the company now.

Don’t

I had no idea Lemmy even had avatars until I read this post. So I went into my profile out of curiosity - even though I already had “Show Avatars” checked, I’ve never seen a user’s avatar on here before. I did upload one for my own profile though for the hell of it.

That’s everyone in IT

USA, Catholic school - Sex Ed was nonexistent

Lord of the Rings Marathon

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.