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Rooskie91@discuss.online ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

I program for ships (the water kind) and buddy, you ain’t seen nothin’. I’m talking server infrastructure from 1991. Spaghetti code from the 80’s. I had a program that had to run on a dos box, and we had to replace the whole thing because the original developer fucking DIED and no one could read his shit.

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SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

the original developer fucking DIED and no one could read his shit.

Now that’s how to secure job security

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Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I feel like a lot of people are in the bank of “why change of it ain’t broke?” That’s how you have people working some CNC machines on hardware and software available when the business started.

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- Glemek@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  There are still manual machinists around who have jobs like bore a few individual holes on some weldment.
  
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tjsauce@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
So DOSBOX has a place in industrial settings? Glad it’s open source

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vrek@programming.dev ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I worked in medical electronic manufacturing. Changing a single setting for ease of use to the operator was planned as a 2 year project. Literally change a 0 to 1 in one of the files…

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- chaogomu@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I’d imagine that one is because of medical more than anything else. There are all sorts of regulations around medical devices. That slows shit down.
  
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  - vrek@programming.dev ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Absolutely. I got well acquainted with the regulations. The sad part is it was so slow to update anything nothing got updated.
    
    This system needs to be operational by next week. It will be a month before its well made. This needs to be operational by next week. Ok, but then we can fix it right?
    
    Not to mention any changes to anything got evaluated as either a notice update, a 90 day submission, or a full submission(6 months - 2 years depending on fda, bsi and severity of change). That’s in addition to the actual work. I could make a change in a afternoon and may see it in production next year.
    
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- mech@feddit.org ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  A friend of mine writes code for the control systems in nuclear power plans. He told me, on average he writes 13 pages of documentation for each line of code.
  
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LordCrom@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Hire me… a greybeard that does cobol and fortran

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