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   on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ (lain@lain.com)'s status on Thursday, 05-Oct-2023 20:25:06 JST on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ
   we used to able to fit pitfall in 4kb, and now baldur's gate 3 is over 100gb. is it because of commercialisation of education?
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     Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 05-Oct-2023 20:33:45 JST Sexy Moon

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     @lain it's fun to think about space probe code because it kind of shows that you can break almost every modern rule for good software development and make an exceptional product if you hire the very best people, and highly motivate them through national chauvinism.
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     @Moon i think people overestimate the complexity of space probe stuff because it's "rocket science", but once you're in space there's practically nothing there and everything runs super basic inertial equations.
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     Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 05-Oct-2023 20:44:36 JST Sexy Moon

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     @lain Apollo code had to be a lot more complicated and they still made exceptionally reliable code.
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     @Moon i'm not denying that they wrote a lot of software that worked well, i'm just not buying that they were somehow amazing masters of their craft while we idiot webdevs have to stand in awe before 1960s programmers. there are plenty of cases where software bugs destroyed rockets and probes, both in the US and in the USSR.
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     Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 05-Oct-2023 21:00:13 JST Sexy Moon

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     @lain survivor bias is real but I believe that before the commoditization of software engineering, engineers were on average of much higher quality. these people still exist in the world, they are just applying their high level of skill to areas that society actually rewards.
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     Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 05-Oct-2023 21:02:13 JST Sexy Moon

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     @lain national chauvinism is a also a brain hack to get people to do their best work for less personal gain haha
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     @Moon anarchists hate this trick
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     @shibao @Moon link plox
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     @shibao @Moon eepy bao, first thing she thinks about is booba
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     @shibao @Moon that's how love works
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     @shibao @Moon thanks girl you're a bro
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     James Richardson (tokenwizard@calckey.tandj-homelab.dev)'s status on Thursday, 05-Oct-2023 22:46:10 JST James Richardson

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     @shibao@misskey.bubbletea.dev @lain@lain.com @Moon@shitposter.club "Revolution and chill" maybe? lol

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     \\ (slash@cdrom.tokyo)'s status on Thursday, 05-Oct-2023 22:54:22 JST \\

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     @Moon @lain it might also be a byproduct of how directly coupled software and hardware were at that time. Less abstraction meant engineering software required the level of consideration for timings that a mechanic would have working on an engine, where everything has to integrate cleanly into each cycle rather than the luxury of loose timings and scheduling. Thus more of them were Mel as a matter of necessity.

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     @shibao @Moon @tokenwizard CQC (handholding)
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     on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ (lain@lain.com)'s status on Thursday, 05-Oct-2023 23:14:22 JST on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ

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     @shibao @Moon he's saying a lot of good things about how to improve the general quality of dev (tests, pair programming, functional programming. i taught CS that way at uni with scheme and it was incredible how much better the code was after just one semester when compared to java or c courses).
     
     But in the end he says that we 'need' to self regulate and become a 'true profession' like doctors and lawyers, which are two of the best examples of what not to become.
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