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I guess we don't even need an image.

Upper management sees staff as their courtiers...

My compliments to your vocabulary and effective word choice.

I don't see why... once you "buy a column" (which you must weigh the trade-off towards readability), subsequent uses of that column on other lines are free (save the line itself, of course).

Ok... just for you, I will extend the saying to be "every line and column is a liability".

Even then, so the theory goes... every line of code is a liability, it is only emergent properties of the system as a whole that makes it an asset. It takes but one line to destroy it's value, and in general a 2kloc codebase is more valuable than a 4kloc codebase, if they do the same thing. QED? :)

I hate that I like this.

Violation on the field, meme is not self-contained... first down vote.

That is certainly a possibility. As I recall, the video was not focused on "zoom to the stars" but something else (I'm thinking it was "you can actually see the moon moving through the sky"), so I'm more inclined to believe that I am either mis-remembering the "stars" part of the video, or that what I saw in the video was not stars (maybe Venus, Jupiter, or satellites) as it was certainly not a vast high-contrast star-field...

This was years ago, so I doubt I could find it now. Nonetheless, it looked something like this (zooming in and blue sky turns black): https://www.youtube.com/shorts/dJ28M29k4MY

Is that suse-on-a-phone just a tease, or something awesome I have yet to discover?

I recall seeing one of these hyper-zoom videos on yt where they zoomed into the blue sky and at one point it turned black and stars appeared. I imagine the same holds true for LEO sats... you just need to get past that isoluminescnce barrier?

It seems like I'm adding a new "secure private messenger" to my research queue every week. One would think it's straight forward enough to solve, and that we would settle on one or two as a gold standard.