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		antognini on Nov 7, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The most unethical thing I was asked to build whil... To further add some (maybe helpful) pedantry, the boundary between an airplane and a satellite is usually taken to be the point at which the velocity required to remain aloft via aerodynamic lift exceeds the orbital velocity if there were no atmosphere.

Kye on Nov 7, 2022 [–]

This thread is like that meme/joke where a programmer's code gets more and less elaborate for a basic Hello World as their career advances.

mLuby on Nov 8, 2022 | | [–]

https://www.smart-jokes.org/programmer-evolution.html

lelandfe on Nov 8, 2022 | | [–]

Reminds me of this old classic: https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpris...

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