@Some_Emo_Chick it's an old joke, before the overturn. Only in that one she still got fined for the passenger not wearing a seat belt!

@nolan one part that didn't sit right with me was "we love our own complex solutions". I don't have any statistics about it, but I can speak for myself that trying to dumb things down to the minimal working state has become, over the years, my main approach to design. I definitely encountered other people like that too.

@aral reminds of a quote from an iconic Soviet times fantasy novel:

"The society would be exceptionally democratic, and forcing citizens into anything would be unthinkable (he emphasized it several times), everyone would be rich and free from troubles, and even the most insignificant farmer would have at least three slaves."

@underlap what I'm fascinated about is that its model theoretically should not have the problem of git where commits only make sense in the timeline of a branch, so you have the classic pain of maintaining slightly divergent branches (like prod and staging) where sometimes the same change would have a conflict in one but not the other. In pijul a patch in multiple branches has the same identity, and conflict resolution is *another* patch, local to a branch.

@friend @yarmo well, not my repo, I'm afraid! It's using an experimental VCS, https://pijul.com/

@yarmo ah no, I misremember apparently. Sorry for the commotion :-)

@yarmo I recently published a #rust crate and don't remember needing anything Github related.

@tomasino entertainment execs have been doing that for ages, multiplying the biggest number they could stretch to mean "views" by the biggest number they could claim as price and declaring that "lost profit". Too bad courts all over the world have no problem accepting this BS. See the case of The Pirate Bay founders,for example.