I'm not a coder, but my job requires a bunch of menial, boring coding. I do numerical simulations. After mathematically understanding the numerical method, it's basically half a step above data entry. There's also a bunch of legacy fortran code I have to build on that has zero documentation and three letter variables. This would be one of the few actually good applications of text generating machine learning imo.

[–] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

If it has three letter variables, chances are it was also written by someone that doesn't want to code either

[–] Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's so old that it was for purposes of saving memory.

[–] Patches@ttrpg.network 3 points 2 days ago

Back when optimization was Black Magic. Now we just tell the customers they need better hardware.

Someone probably had to argue hard to get 3 letter variables. Guarantee there was some one arguing for 1 letter variables.

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