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nyeah 38 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Tail-call optimization in C is relatively recent (...

>That quote is the article, and it's a little surprising that it's buried so far into the content

Is it really surprising in 2026? Today's online writing style is not primarily designed to communicate. It's designed to keep the reader 'engaged' for as long as possible. The reader's time is a resource to be extracted.

I'm absolutely not poking this author individually. It's the writing style of the net.

derdi 38 days ago [–]

I was wondering what this was in reference to; it's not in reference to TFA here. It's a quote from https://bytecode.news/posts/2026/08/because-it-s-not-fun-eno..., so presumably you meant to post this over at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49242245.

nyeah 38 days ago | [–]

Oh, good point, thanks.

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