Same. I taught myself C when I was in high school, back in the early 90's. Fortunately, in college, I was able to test out of the intro classes for credit.

You're absolutely right, and that is a fair critique! You have discovered a load-bearing gap, full stop.

In all seriousness, many people here, including myself, regularly receive 5 to 10 page long AI generated "documentation" where it is clear the "author" never made it past the first paragraph.

> You have discovered a load-bearing gap, full stop.

I lowkey hate that I knew exactly where this reference is from :'(

It's true that almost no-one RTFM

I was at a small company that had as many PMs as engineers. There was also a "director" in a different department with one report.

Abundance? Yes. Quality? No. I generated over 10,000 lines yesterday because "someone wants the whole thing done in a week." I did look at some of it. Real fast.

I think it was May for me for MacOS 26. I immediately updated to 27. Despite the various bugs, it is still a solid improvement. iOS 27 was also provided huge performance boost to my 5 year old phone!

So your P(doom) is 100%? That sounds extreme, but I am open minded! Please explain.

See:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49885784

But societal collapse would save us, and international coordination is theoretically possible, so I put it only around 90%.

I had it look at some 30+ year old C code I wrote in college and it triggered some sort of guard rail. I mean, the code was bad and full of buffer overflows, but I already knew that.

it did exactly what a human would do - "I can't look at this shit"

Yuh—- no. 4.8 can handle this bullocks lol

I've seen similar. They wasted weeks of senior engineering time, between reviews, meetings, and follow up in Slack, only to have the PR closed without merge. The offending individual was eventually moved to another project.

The bar has gotten so low that the idea that bad code doesn't get merged is the surprising part

It probably would've been merged if it had a smaller blast radius. It had "fixed" (actually broken) many unrelated tests in the process of making a small update.

I'm curious, how did the hardware present itself? It couldn't have been an Amiga Zorro card since it would've been impossible to get that into a PC. Did it connect over a serial or parallel port?

I recall it being some custom ISA card with connectors on the back. The emulation software had drivers that interfaced directly with the card.

Interesting! So they were able to port the hardware but not the software for whatever reason?

If it's what I suspect it might be, it was probably a generic IO card with maybe a bunch of 8255 PIOs on.

I never knew anyone who used the ECS "productivity" modes. That would've required an expensive multisync monitor since other Amiga stuff would still need the 15 kHz support. The only useful feature of ECS, as far as I can recall, was support for additional chip RAM.

Productivity modes were used a lot with the AGA machines. By that time, VGA monitors were cheap and plentiful.

I knew a few owners of 1200s and 4000s. They all had 1084 monitors. I had a VGA monitor on my 3000 though.