Submitted 1 year ago by aCosmicWave@lemm.ee to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
The Bill of Rights was the first patch deployed in 1791 with an Overwhelmingly Positive reception.
Future releases came in the form of Constitutional Amendments with Mostly Positive reviews (although a very vocal minority did attempt to review bomb).
The Constitution is like x86 assembly and the Bill of Rights like C. People talk shit about both and say how both are obsolete, yet the modern computing world is built on top of these, or on top of successors to these.
Georgian COBOL on a Babbage engine powered by a water wheel from a now defunct diversion of the Hudson being bandied around like it’s the latest fucking macOS. The decals are clearly peeling, but the world’s on fire and everyone has stock they don’t want to sell yet, so we’re riding this ship to bedrock and that’s final, mister.
It’d be great if that were true. Code only ever does one thing, but the US constitution doesn’t really DO anything. It’s just some vague concepts that were supposed to be revised later on, but now people just twist that vagueness into supporting their own goals.
Just rewrite the damn this instead of treating it like a holy book meant to be interpreted by the clergy.
I politely disagree! Code contains rules and instructions for computers to follow. The constitution contains rules and instructions for humans to follow.
This is like Read Another Book but for software devs
You can’t disregard code
GiddyGap@lemmy.world 1 year ago
And we’re way overdue for another patch or two.
jeffw@lemmy.world 1 year ago
ERA still hanging on by a thread
entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
Technically 38 states have now voted to ratify it, so we’ll need to see how far it goes in court