saw a 2nd year CS guy run a maze solver (for final exam) with 300 nested if-statements. worked about 50% of the time. so he added another 5000 nested ifs and got it up to 90%. good enough!

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[–] jimmux@programming.dev 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's like how when you were a kid, you thought quicksand was something you would need to be aware of as an adult in the big wide world. In my undergrad, mod everywhere. Very important knowledge. Now not so much.

[–] HamBrick@programming.dev 9 points 1 year ago

I (a teen boy) was with a bunch of other dudes on a river, one found quicksand, and it quickly became a game of who could get deepest