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That's it, Ross is freed. Let's impeach this prick now

The fact that this duplicates the work and responsibilities of an already existing government department makes this 50x funnier

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I emailed the ADL over an issue in one of their infographics 3-4 years ago and it still isn't fixed, I'll probably hold that over them forever

Not so sure feminism is what you think it is, equality between all genders is kind of a fundamental part of it.

If someone tells you their name, regardless of what it is, it's by definition a suitable identifier to refer to them by.

Input validation in places like this is for chumps. (replace 'name' with pronouns/gender/whatever if you so wish)

If at first you don't succeed, pcall(), pcall(), and pcall() again

I so wish, though I see the bigger benefit of "enough power" as the ability move to a more standard simpler/reduced instruction set architecture for the same or similarly reasonable performance.

I would hate to live with a clone of myself; together, we would almost certainly just argue all the time and never get anything done.

I'm so glad we're collectively past the era of online personalities being defined by a singular post (usually a tweet)

You are now playing The Game.

The purpose of The Game is to go as long as possible without remembering you are playing The Game. The Timer resets each time you remember you are playing The Game.

There is no known way to quit playing The Game. Good luck!

You know your self-entitled "Extremely Ghetto Solution" has reached new heights of Extremely Ghetto when people start saying "stop calling it that, it's actually a reasonably good and well-thought-out solution"

It's so lost on me, but I can't stop thinking about Urbit. Its deliberately idiosyncratic design decisions (0 = true, difficult to understand for anyone not technically competent, planets being named such that it's difficult to tell what their galaxy is) means that I don't think it'll ever take over the world, certainly not anytime soon.

But think about what technologies will still exist in 100 years.

- The internet? Most likely. Most large companies on it? Probably not so much.

- Big, established networks like Bitcoin and Ethereum? Yeah. Smaller ones like Monero and Litecoin? Hmm, less of a chance.

- Fundamental protocols like TCP/UDP/IP/HTTP? Probably. Smaller ones like Nostr? There are reasons I'm here, but overall I have my doubts.

- Ubiquitous programming languages like C and JavaScript? Of course, they're everywhere. Smaller ones like Go/Lua/Rust? A few might still be around.

Clearly the more a technology is used, the more likely it is to seem like it'll stick around. If a system is designed to stand the test of time, then that obviously helps. Try extending the time to what will still exist in, say, 200 years. It's a fun thought experiment.

Is Urbit on this list? Ehh, I have no idea, but it seems to have potential. In physics, lots of quantities for electricity need their own specific units because they're so unintuitive, unlike other quantities. Urbit, with its gigantic glossary of terms, is similar in this way.

I don't have a way to end this post, Urbit has just been on my mind recently. It's mesmerising hierarchy much reflects the mind of its creator as a hierarchical thinker, which I find more difficult to grok as a someone on the other end of the thought spectrum.

urbit: don't Nock it till ya try it

Rip the Go Time podcast after 8 years and 340 episodes, checked out fallthrough.fm and it looks cool though!