There’s nothing stopping them from hosting a massive instance. But people aren’t forced to move there to interact with them.

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If they can’t change what’s essentially a variable name without issues then should they be doing the job?

They have a reason. You just don’t like it.

I don’t think we can be. We’d be paralyzed if we tried to be wholly serious.

If they weren’t in plain text how could we check to make sure it’s still there?

I wouldn’t put it past them to experience numbers in the per second realm, especially as new data posts and everyone is rushing to grab it.

Thank you for this. Everything above it was just people saying the stick would move slower than light, nothing about why!

Held back by his environment.

I laughed but really I know when the last good database and systems people left government to be replaced by contractors. It was Bush’s first term. Since then everything has been just putting a new front end on the back end government programmers created in the 1990’s.

Just so you know census data is very heavily queried. Everything from civil engineering to economics wants to look at that dataset every day.

Oh I just curled up into a fetal ball at the thought of that…

Login? Why would I do that? Aren’t the credentials in the code? I just hit the go button.

What makes you think they’re uneducated?

But why even? There’s no risk to changing it and some risk to keeping it. That’s the reason for the push to change it. Keeping something just because it’s tradition isn’t a good idea outside ceremonies.

Where I am you’re almost never the only delivery.

They do make multiple deliveries per trip…

Yeah. Yeah it is. I was in Times Square recently and had the thought that this was the glitzy permanent neon lighting to go with all the other stuff.

To be fair, the super bowl ads are seen as part of the entertainment by many people and the companies generally do go out of their way to make the funniest or cutest ads of the year. Any other time I would fully agree with you.

Yeah, I wonder if he’s just taking his time or he’s trying to keep some stuff as closed? I’ll admit it’s been about a year since I even looked at code but I feel it, calling me to abandon all life except the glowing screen again.