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And you think you're a big deal because you can ssh into your container...

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It was launched in 1977. Think about it. One of the challenges with the troubleshooting was convincing Bob, the COBOL developer, to interrupt his retirement.
Then Bob looks at the source code and finds a comment:

"This will probably break but by then I'll be retired and who cares because we will have warp drive spaceships, yolo"
20 years for now, Voyager 2 becomes humankind's only hope to take down an advanced alien spaceship coming to destroy our planet.

Helicopter lands at Bob's backyard at retirement home.

Bob: -Oh you must be #$^%#$ kidding me
First I thought devs had it easy because they could say they were waiting for the compiler while playing games.

Then I thought data scientists had it easy because they were waiting for training.

But this beats it. You can have a whole vacation until you find out if it worked
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