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by yellow_lead 1018 days ago
I think it's good. I got a chance to shadow a surgeon and watch some surgeries. I thought the field was interesting, but I was bored out of my mind, during some of the most 'interesting' surgeries. If I didn't know that, I might have wasted a lot of time. (I'm not saying it's boring in general, but this was my opinion, meaning I'm unsuited for it)
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When ya think about it, what is a body but a pile of unmaintained code made by two drunken people a few decades ago, using a framework with a few million years of tech debt?

Everyone wants to do the upfront coding, but nobody likes maintaining it afterward...

Commented out code, self modifying code, overlapping code, copy pasted code, code integrated from other species, even code integrated from malware. Execution of fragments requires solving quantum mechanics for large particles and in practice is done by random changes followed up by measurement of the result. Execution of the entire thing past a few initial bootloader steps has never been achieved in vitro, let alone in a controllable simulation with something that resembles a debugger.
Lack of a debugger should not be a problem, as we all know printf is the best debugger. Unfortunately this system's printf implementation has numerous known and unknown output bugs, so what it tells you requires many years of training to interpret with 70% accuracy.