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by lll-o-lll 239 days ago
Umm. Is this some sort of troll article? It sucks you in with nerd nostalgia and slowly becomes more and more esoteric and insane.

Here’s the final two lines:

> We should know better than to prematurely optimize for order when all of all time arrowpoints in and down to the absolute return 0. Words of wisdom, let it be: your world is a fine stream of consciousness, lacking only a decent editor.

If that feels like your jam, go for it, but personally I feel in need of an exorcist after letting my computer load this…

2 comments

Author is a lapsed Catholic, it checks out (speaking as a former lapsed Catholic who knows lapsed Catholics)
Under Unix the norm is to return 0 if everything it's OK.