Assuming "classical" computation, the hypothetical parent universe would have to have a mass of transistors heavy enough that the whole parent universe would collapse in on itself (assuming they had remotely similar physics to us and wanted to model *everything*)

Imagine the destabilising effect he would have on the entire economy. People have been killed for less... (this also implies that if Santa was real, he'd only be able function as a guerrilla faction)

The "bedroom coders" everyone loves to romanticize were selling shareware. They were selling mail-order software. Victor Hugo wrote Les Mis as a serial for a newspaper and he got paid by the word, which is why it's so fucking long. Labor can only exist if society values its existence.

People will say "I'm taking the ICP to Disco" and it's not about the Insane Clown Posse

A) These tools just aren't very good and B) managers are completely unaware that these tools aren't very good.

Anyway I felt like a minor god when I'd pieced together the exact combination of package upgrades I needed to make the pipelines run again.