UUIDs are neat. y'know, cfbff0d1-9375-5685-968c-48ce8b15ae17 type of shit. if you're like me until a few days ago, all you know about the types of UUID is that v4 is the good one. but why are there other ones? is there a secret better one? why are the dashes asymmetrical? let's take a (roughly paraphrased from wikipedia and probably not quite accurate) look.
"join our discord" is the new "pinterest result on google." anti-information. your pursuit ends here. facts will not be found today. it's like if you asked someone on the street what time it was and they said "come into my church and take communion and I'll tell you"
discord is an organized, focused, hell-bent project to ensure that no! information ever! gets accidentally preserved. the purpose of a system is what it does, so discord's purpose is to lose things. "everything anyone has ever said on a topic" is the goal but they take what they can get
it used to be terrifying when the support / faq / help link on a website went to a forum. then they started going to wikis, and we all turned around and screamed at springy the spring sprite to take it back, we didn't mean it. we love zinc.
then they turned into discord links, and when we looked back at springy, we saw only satan
it's just an incredible one-two-three punch of "did you just tell me to go fuck myself?"
because you get part A: "almost everything we've ever said about our software project is in, basically, a 10 gigabyte text file spanning 8 years of conversations, many off-topic. here's a fulltext search. it replaces near-homonyms, so your search for the exact keyword 'CLOUT' will be silently altered to 'CLOUD'."
and part B: "you can't even look at it without loading it up in a separate program, possibly getting punted into a Welcome To Our Server process, having everyone on the server see your name (hope you weren't investigating something made by people who hate you!) and then having four people @ you the millisecond you join with generic welcomes (hope you don't have social anxiety!)"
and then part C: "if you gather up the courage to actually ask us for help after the fulltext search fails, we will insult you until you cry, even if you don't have social anxiety."
the best advice i can possibly give anyone is "every time one person joins your discord, one thousand people decide your project is off-limits to them and leave the page, never to return."
It is absolute bullshit that standards organizations cough ISO/IEC, ANSI, IEEE, et. al, cough make it absolute heck if not impossible for individuals to get access to standards, even if they are working on open source stuff.
I know you can buy the standards, but not all of us can afford to drop 100USD for a 14 page PDF which doesn't even have all the information we need. It's extremely prohibitive and outright hostile to individuals and small companies that want to follow standards.
And the fact these standards organizations don't have any interest in trying to help and proliferate the standards for wider adoption is frankly absurd.
This is why i'm a proponent for truly open standards, keeping them locked behind a restrictive paywall is franky, malicious.
grumbly catgirl sounds
Yeah, putting standards behind paywall is just despicable.
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