This is my mantra. Maintainability is king. I can’t convince anyone designing our systems that this is more important than fancy 3rd party libraries that add some capability that only a couple of people will ever understand how to use, but will find it’s way throughout the codebase and be a thorn in the side of bug fixes and new features for years.

Ah, man, Baghdad Bob! I haven’t thought about that guy in a while. He was good entertainment.

I mean, if they pull it off, I’ll be impressed, but it seems like the “why?” is something they should answer before this project is undertaken. Sure, it could be used to power a moon base or something else, but I would expect that need for a power source to be the lead, not the power source. And if they don’t really know why yet – it’s an extremely expensive solution looking for a problem.

A brave man. I wish more would be like him, or at least listen to him and consider what he’s saying.

It looks like Snoo’s drunk uncle. What’s with the 5 o’clock shadow?

I was beginning to wonder if the bot purging got a little too ambitious. Also, requisite “I am not a bot” statement. Beep. Boop.