> 1: do you know when humans discovered that the world is round? > 2: 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue > 1: it was 240 BC by a greek mathematician named Eratosthenes. he conducted a simple experiment using the length of shadows and the distance to not only prove the earth is round, but also calculate its circumference, > 2: sounds low tech > 1: it was utterly briliant. but somehow, for 1 and a half millennia it was common knowledge that the world was flat. hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of reas of raft ignorance. how in motherfucking hell does this happen? > 1: it was you. you, who make claims about thread performance without measuring. you, who claim hacking your code with a machete, turning it inside out, into a twisted unrecognizable mess will somehow make it go faster. you, who spend your time alternating between problems that are already solved and problems that don't actually exist. (cont)