I find over and over that I'd rather have 10 simple lines over 1 tricky line for one simple reason: invariably one of the tricky actions holds the key to a bug, and I want to have more precise control over where my breakpoint is (which method call in the tricky line is throwing that null reference exception anyhow?).
We can build underground bunkers powered by nuclear reactors and grow plants by the soft glow of UV lamps, for instance. For humans to become extinct, something will have to hit us really hard and really fast.
Of course we can build all of those things, but this is precisely the type of event that would hit really hard and fast. Given that as a species we don't currently have such bolt hole facilities of any significant capacity, even if we were to assume a small number of months of warning and build up time it's highly unlikely we would actually get it done before the big eruption. We simply don't have the global political will to make it happen in that time scale--let alone to get a start now when it's all theoretical (on a human timescale).
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I find over and over that I'd rather have 10 simple lines over 1 tricky line for one simple reason: invariably one of the tricky actions holds the key to a bug, and I want to have more precise control over where my breakpoint is (which method call in the tricky line is throwing that null reference exception anyhow?).
We can build underground bunkers powered by nuclear reactors and grow plants by the soft glow of UV lamps, for instance. For humans to become extinct, something will have to hit us really hard and really fast.
Of course we can build all of those things, but this is precisely the type of event that would hit really hard and fast. Given that as a species we don't currently have such bolt hole facilities of any significant capacity, even if we were to assume a small number of months of warning and build up time it's highly unlikely we would actually get it done before the big eruption. We simply don't have the global political will to make it happen in that time scale--let alone to get a start now when it's all theoretical (on a human timescale).