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binary form that cannot be recreated from scratch

Back in my day, we called it "freeware"

Is he referring to something specific with "true" iterative calculations vs. plain old iterative ones, assuming they are in some way "non-true" or less "true"? Like, avoiding i+=x in favor of ++i or something? Or maybe am I just tired today.

They're pissing off the non technical people now, though. We'll see how it all plays out in the next few years.

circa 2005: Score:5, Funny on Slashdot

circa 2025: grayed out on Hacker News

That thought should terrify it

assuming it can be terrified

Heaven forbid anyone should be weird...

You asked how my reply is related, and I answered. I would say that I understood the context.

It's the number of lines of code in Swift.

Is there anyone else out there?

If I reply yes, would you believe me? Am I even replying to a "you" right now, or was it a comment posted by a call to requests.get() by some AI agent?