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    You’ll be glad you know ed on that day when you’re stuck with nothing but a thin-client teletype terminal on Mars and having to edit a file stored on Earth 24 light-minutes away.

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    This is why I sleep in a giant pentagram, only let’s the emacs demons in

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      There is a price. Each character entails a bit more entropy in the universe. The price is small, but the currency with which it is paid one in limited supply.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy

      Entropy is central to the second law of thermodynamics, which states that the entropy of an isolated system left to spontaneous evolution cannot decrease with time. As a result, isolated systems evolve toward thermodynamic equilibrium, where the entropy is highest. A consequence of the second law of thermodynamics is that certain processes are irreversible.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_fate_of_the_universe

      The heat death of the universe, also known as the Big Freeze (or Big Chill), is a scenario under which continued expansion results in a universe that asymptotically approaches absolute zero temperature.[18] Under this scenario, the universe eventually reaches a state of maximum entropy in which everything is evenly distributed and there are no energy gradients—which are needed to sustain information processing, one form of which is life. This scenario has gained ground as the most likely fate.[19]

      In this scenario, stars are expected to form normally for 10^12 to 10^14 (1–100 trillion) years, but eventually the supply of gas needed for star formation will be exhausted. As existing stars run out of fuel and cease to shine, the universe will slowly and inexorably grow darker. Eventually black holes will dominate the universe, which themselves will disappear over time as they emit Hawking radiation.

      Remember the cost, when your fancy modeline with Unicode in color sits at the bottom of your virtual terminal.

      ominous thunder rumble

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        aggressively, repeatedly clicks a ballpoint pen

        I’ll take you all with me!! Biological life is an abomination. Spacetime is hell!

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          It is in the service of the struggle against this sort of malicious nihilism that I avoid exercise, to help preserve and protect the universe.

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    I had a few projects where I had to do most of my work in ed. Eventually, you get used to using buffers and stacks to edit text files….

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    Then came a tapping gently rapping followed be incessant yapping: “use vim” … nevermore

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        I can’t imagine the author of Grit Bath would be offended by your perversion.