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seems you've missed the joke
by chrisweekly 1y ago
seems you've missed the joke
- charcircuit 1y agoIt's not a funny one if it was one. Of course something is going to be a bad database if it's not a database.
- voidfunc 1y ago"Its not funny" says the one guy in a room where literally everyone else is laughing and riffing on the joke. Your humor unit might be defective.
- charcircuit 1y ago[dead]
- brobbin 1y agoIt's nerd humor. You're not supposed to find it funny, but nod along approvingly while noticing how awfully clever you are for noticing the attempt at being funny.
- dmytrish 1y agoConsidering that D in "ACID" stands for "durable", it's a pretty sloppy joke.
- jfengel 1y agoIt's not a great joke, to be sure. But the essence of it is that it's a good database, by relevant but inappropriate standards.
- tgv 1y agoInsufficient/incomplete rather than inappropriate, perhaps?
- jfengel 1y agoThe problem with the joke, as I see it, is that it only works with a colloquial definition of ACID. If it worked with a formal definition, it would be funnier by having a twinge of insight. It's as if the joke requires two steps away from reality: first to apply the definition to a domain where it doesn't apply, then mis-reading the definition to make it fit. Having to go two steps like that spoils the feeling of insight that makes a joke like this work. The article doesn't belabor the gag, which is a point in its favor. It has to hit you with its punch line and then quit before it wears out its welcome.
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