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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…



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.




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