tech is not about asking about the consequences of what you are doing, it's about asking if it can be done at all /s (but sometimes not /s)
https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
Less sarcastic quote: Anything that can be Written in JavaScript, will Eventually be Written in JavaScript.
im calling you out because you have no idea of what youre speaking of ;; youve been an HN member since 2018 ; Ive had mined since 2009, but even before that....
i agree with 100.
growing up in the 80s and reading cyberpunk fiction??
I think we should blame those dudes on CONSEQUENCES of
WHAT IF
CEO, 20 years later: Inspired by "Don't Build The Cyberpunk Dystopian Hellscape", we have built a Cyberpunk Dystopian Hellscape! It will be very profitable.
But I don’t think this joke works because afaik it’s a reference to: https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Total_Perspective_Vortex
And in the book it didn’t work because Zaphod was (rightfully) so egotistical he was immune to it! So it seems the sci-fi author’s moral here is that it’s fine actually.
Zaphod glared at him with resentment and loathing.
"What's the difference?" he muttered.
"Nothing," said Zarniwoop, "they are identical. Oh-except that I think the Frogstar Fighters are grey in the real Universe."
...
"Meanwhile, you and I arranged that you would steal the Improbability Drive ship-the only one which could reach the ruler's world-and bring it to me here. This you have now done I trust, and I congratulate you." He smiled a tight little smile which Zaphod wanted to hit with a brick.
"Oh, and in case you were wondering," added Zarniwoop, "this Universe was created specifically for you to come to. You are therefore the most important person in this Universe. You would never," he said with an even more brickable smile, "have survived the Total Perspective Vortex in the real one. Shall we go?"