There is wide spread misuse of XKCD 2347 "Dependency", in reality it often almost always looks like this instead
![[A tower of blocks is shown. The upper half consists of many tiny blocks balanced on top of one another to form smaller towers, labeled:] All modern digital infrastructure [The blocks rest on larger blocks lower down in the image, finally on a single large block. This is balanced on top of a set of blocks on the left, and on the right, a single tiny block placed on its side. This one is labeled:] Code that will actually end the fucking world [There is another tiny but bigger set of blocks on the opposite side, labeled:] Where most people who post this image are](/d/G9bnmL4vTn9T7T3l9pF82.png "[A tower of blocks is shown. The upper half consists of many tiny blocks balanced on top of one another to form smaller towers, labeled:] All modern digital infrastructure [The blocks rest on larger blocks lower down in the image, finally on a single large block. This is balanced on top of a set of blocks on the left, and on the right, a single tiny block placed on its side. This one is labeled:] Code that will actually end the fucking world [There is another tiny but bigger set of blocks on the opposite side, labeled:] Where most people who post this image are")
one honk maybe more
neuron@chaos.social
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