nostr:npub19lt4284mghqxekzm6n5njxurnxrxhqhrva2leusdsuu5ja5jeycq66qfjk Tangent: URL parsing is hard. Here’s Twitter’s reference library: https://github.com/twitter/twitter-text/blob/30e2430d90cff3b46393ea54caf511441983c260/java/src/main/java/com/twitter/twittertext/Extractor.java#L302. I mostly just dug this up for myself when I remembered that it exists.
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I get that.
But at the same time I'm told that Google only hires the best of the best. That those 7 round interviews weed out all but the A+ Geniuses. That Google's vast fortune means it can do the impossible.
And yet…