Bending is an operation similar to folding, both in real life and in the language. While fold is recursive on data, bend is recursive on a boolean condition (like a pure while that supports multiple branching recursion points).

I was actually looking forward to seeing someone from Bend to make a comment like this

As a fellow resident of Bend I felt the same way when I saw this.

As a native Bendite but not current Bend resident, seeing that word with a capital letter always makes me smell juniper and sagebrush a little bit.

Totally off topic but I'll be driving there later this afternoon. Hoping it's as beautiful as last time!

If you're going to be here for a bit (I am heading out of town on a bike trip for a few days), always happy to grab a beer with fellow HN people!

Unfortunately just the weekend. I'm just in Portland tho so will definitely be back.

Thought the same thing!