[59nadir]

Thanks, this will shave years off of my post-retirement projects!

For real, though, I've always found things like these fascinating.

I used to be very interested in working with software for weapons (specifically for fighter aircraft) because they've got very interesting problems to solve that usually are very direct. The amount of irrelevant code paths you can add, the amount of really far-away external stuff seems very limited at least in theory, so it seems a very interesting field to work in.

I could never get over that it would feel very bad being part of a process that ultimately might end in killing someone, though, so it was a non-starter.