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i escaped a cult.
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lifning
@lifning

in all the years of hearing https://old.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/4qr8zd/a_tcp_packet_walks_into_a_bar/ ad nauseam, i've never heard anyone but me bring anything like "a udp stack walks into a bar and doesn't necessarily order."

the subtle bit here is that 'order' is a double-entendre (as in command; as in sequence), and because most engineers are primed for udp-related jokes to be about the emergent properties of not guaranteeing delivery (and for udp jokes about not preserving sequence, usually it's more obvious, like scrambling the words of a sentence), so often people don't get the whole joke -- but that's okay, they weren't guaranteed to


exerian
@exerian

the number of groans that emanated from me as i read this...


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