Greg Wilson on Nostr: Sometimes I think about Earth-1217, where every CSV file has two header rows: column ...
Sometimes I think about Earth-1217, where every CSV file has two header rows: column names and units (which imply data type). At first glance that world is indistinguishable from ours, but after wandering around for a while, you realize that Earth-1217's programmers are noticeably happier than ours.
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