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Professional cow, Linux Nerd, Hardcore Techno enthusiast. The Emporer protects us.

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  • Absolutely. Its not always possible to write self explantory code. Especially when you have to use some narly uncommon Syntax a short comment can improve the readability Quite a lot. Personally I like to comment my Parameter Expansions in Bash, since I find its Syntax quite hard to remember and therefore it can be a little bit challenging to infer the functionality just by looking at a bunch of special characters.



  • I’m not saying there’s nowhere left for tech to improve, especially in the medical and biotech space, but in the consumer market there’s only so much we realistically need. It has been addressed, end of sentence,

    Im just gonna leave a few Quotes here:

    When we set the upper limit of PC-DOS at 640K, we thought nobody would ever need that much memory.

    William Gates, 1985

    In 1894, Albert A. Michelson remarked that in physics there were no more fundamental discoveries to be made. Quoting Lord Kelvin, he continued, “An eminent physicist remarked that the future truths of physical science are to be looked for in the sixth place of decimals.

    Saying that IT (or most big industry in general) has nothing left to do except for selling stupid stuff, just because capitalism requires it is straight up delusional.