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Still valid (thelemmy.club)

submitted 3 months ago by cm0002@europe.pub to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[-] AAA@feddit.org 40 points 3 months ago

Survivorship bias. We only see the "good old programs" because the bad ones didn't make it until now.

[-] Stitch0815@feddit.org 19 points 3 months ago

Yes

And while not exactly applicable for the computer example but generally everytime this example is brought up

ROMANS DID NOT HAVE 40 FUCKING TON TRUCKS

Much less so 100s per hour

Roman infrastructure was/is impressive no doubt

But not that impressive

[-] mkwt@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Yeah, the damage curve is exponential by axle weight.

[-] anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 months ago

Not quite, but fourth power may as well be.

[-] 1984@lemmy.today 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Sure, but we have been running the same Linux command line tools now for the 30 years ive been on Linux. None of them have had any noticable bugs and none of them have been replaced, until maybe now recently with some rust versions that are still not default.

They are incredibly actually. We dont have that in software engineering anymore. We add features and bloat to all modern software until it needs to be replaced.

[-] trackball_fetish@lemmy.wtf 6 points 3 months ago

Kind of sad isn't it? I had some lengthy discussions with someone who worked for Atari in the 70s/80s and the amount of magic they worked with limited hardware was something else.. Sadly I was a young drunk and don't remember much of what he said.