90% of programming I have seen after a decade plus of doing it full time is minor changes being made to code that was already made by someone. Likely not documented. Likely already changed in a dozen little ways. Math isn’t the problem. Understanding what the guy who wrote it is often the problem.

Oh and you can’t ask them because they likely don’t work here anymore.

Being a programmer is more like being a detective than anything else unless you work for a small company.

I am saddened to see that this thread had no mention of how many horses it takes to run a router. What do y’all think? Would one be enough? It would need to work in shifts to keep up time at 100%. Maybe 3 to be safe?

Mirror + bandaid + paperclip + packing tape = boom? It’s like a bad 80s tv show.

I kind of like to think that anyone inside thought that they drove off the crew attacking their position. Like “Ha, they are leaving, we did it. Great job everyone.
… Wait what’s that beeping sound? Do you guys here ticking?”

I am pretty sure those wires on the fpv drone was a contact sensor. That is brilliant. Simple loops that when you hit something they get pushed together.

I feel like the other side of that central plate has your answer. Pop the central screw and see what is on the other side of that discoloration.

It’s the companys fault for looking at the 151 and saying, what if we replaced all this with random bullshit? I miss the og pokemon. I tried playing newer games but damn, it’s pure chaos.

Sir Chad carries a twelve pounder hand cannon, and when he ignites the powder the ball sails true into the main deck of the pirate, but the recoil capsizes his vessel.

Stupid sexy Flanders.

This guy is a real champ. It must be hard having no arms or legs and being a fashion model. But putting the shoes under him just seems petty and mean.

That is awesome. And maybe this is a dumb question but… Would that actually make the report of the gun louder?

I wish I could show this comment to people who built a multi million dollar project for the government using just these kinds of tools. But maybe you can only get away with that kind of thing in government contracting work lol

That’s what I said when I joined a place that wrote almost everything in blueprints. Somehow all the other devs didn’t think it was possible.

It’s code, but without automated tests, comments, style rules, and often stored in binary files making change management a nightmare.

It’s trying to paint but you can only use your fingers and also one of the other devs ate all the red.

An amazing story, and just downright perplexing. It is a shame you never found out what on earth was going on in the CTOs head. I would love to understand the thought process (or lack thereof) that went into that.

This thread went unexpected places. I can’t even imagine the pain. I hope you keep printing little bits of joy for them.

This looks similar to a problem I was having. Turned out that my extruder wasn’t calibrated properly and it was pushing far less material then expected. Try running an extrusion test like described in https://ellis3dp.com/Print-Tuning-Guide/articles/extruder_calibration.html

The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed.

The Economist, December 4, 2003, William Gibson

I think about it like the tires on a car. They are (hopefully) the only part of the car that touches the road. If they aren’t working correctly everything else isn’t going to save you from a gentle curve in the road.