Comment by DarmokJalad1701
5 years ago
When I read the headline, the idea I had in my head was of some kind of crowdsourced meth production system.
5 years ago
When I read the headline, the idea I had in my head was of some kind of crowdsourced meth production system.
I don’t think that would be a bad description of the state of meth manufacturing in the Midwest during the 2000s and early 2010s. Users would source together (one person buys the Sudafed, another the chemicals, etc) to make meth and then they would trade with each other, etc. The rise of super labs and purity levels the average meth head couldn’t achieve basically killed the peer-to-peer meth business. At least this was my experience with my addicted cousins back home (in the Midwest.)
I thought someone had decided to be edgy, and named their project, "meth"!
On MacOS I use an app called Amphetamine to prevent my computer from sleeping. I got a real kick out of that. I got a further kick when I learned that Amphetamine was the successor to the earlier version, which was called Caffeine.
Apple, of course, was not amused by that name:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25618245