You Are Atlas, You Hold Up the Sky

https://youareatlas.com/

by retrocryptid • 3 years ago

170 76 3 years ago

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umanwizard2• 3 years ago

If there were only one person holding up the sky, how long would the developer keep his Supabase instance up for?

highwaylights• 3 years ago

Well it’s not about to fall for a while now is it?

Animats• 3 years ago

"The sky has fallen 989 times."

Use this for A/B testing of ads?

booleandilemma• 3 years ago

I'm just going to shrug.

benatkin3• 3 years ago

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

balaji1• 3 years ago

a shrug and an upvote from me

charles_f2• 3 years ago

I had to come back to this post to upvote it, 5m later, after letting out an audible "aaahhhhhh" in the kitchen

xeonmc2• 3 years ago

Such a great title, wasted on such poor writing.

rob742• 3 years ago

I learned about Ayn Rand second-hand thanks to the Bioshock series (which took place in a retrofuturistic submarine dystopia produced by a strictly libertarian society), so I got the reference right away...

e-master• 3 years ago

Who’s John Galt anyway…

cpersona• 3 years ago

I feel disincentivized to hold up the sky. What’s my motivation?

umanwizard2• 3 years ago

So that it doesn't fall.

lijok• 3 years ago

Motivation is your motivation

Joeboy• 3 years ago

You don't need motivation, you need discipline.

joot82• 3 years ago

Same motivation as forwarding chain letters. Being superstitious and hope for invisible internet magic helping those poor orphans in need out. Just that you hold up the sky here.

brmgb• 3 years ago

This reminds me of the Button [1] experiment Reddit held in 2015. The interplay between the effect of the countdown reaching zero, the badge associated with clicking and the single use mechanics were quite interesting to witness. It was quite popular for a surprisingly long time.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Button_(Reddit)

abra02• 3 years ago

It was quite popular for a surprisingly long time.

Hah, that's a blast from the past. One reason it lasted as long as it did was the Knights of the Button, users who collaborated to keep it alive. I implemented the Zombie-presser, 1k+ donated accounts automatically pressing the button when no one else would. We kept it alive for a more then a month before the most embarrassing bug of my career finally killed it :D Good summary here [1].

Fun times! Thank you for the reminder :D

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jun/08/reddits-m...

teaearlgraycold• 3 years ago

What was the bug?

thatxliner• 3 years ago

So that’s where the Hermitcraft button took inspiration from

dstainer• 3 years ago

Was hoping someone would drop a HermitCraft reference!

robertlagrant• 3 years ago

dubbed "The Pressiah" by the community

Sometimes Reddit is excellent.

thirdplace_• 3 years ago

shrug

johnnyworker2• 3 years ago

There are 0 other users online. The sky has fallen 0 times.

courtesy of uMatrix ^^

Jowsey• 3 years ago

I disabled JavaScript on your site that conceptually requires JavaScript to function and now it doesn't work as expected

johnnyworker2• 3 years ago

That wasn't meant as a complaint, more like a "cheat". I also didn't disable JS, it's just uMatrix blocks third party stuff by default.

predictabl3• 3 years ago

It seems like given the tricks I've seen with long-http requests and browsers, it might be possible to implement a version that doesn't require JS.

I think that would also have the effect of being able to easily curl it. Could just add a lil nixos module and quietly deploy it to a few servers. Gotta keep the sky up, of course.

benatkin3• 3 years ago

You Are Atlas, You Hold Up the Sky

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