goto is considered very, very good

the passage of time, as marked by whenever i have to look up the shape to pch mapping in R again

is maths discovered or invented? often neither.

I'm not too much into metaphysics, but if I had to guess, I think the opposite of human flourishing looks a lot like having to debug someone else's custom Bayesian sampler written in C++ with a lot of template metaprogramming, a sprinkling of CUDA, and zero comments.