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   Harish Pillay (harishpillay@floss.social)'s status on Monday, 18-Dec-2023 12:05:13 JST Harish Pillay

   https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/nasas-voyager-1-is-glitching-sending-nonsense-from-interstellar-space-180983448/ This spacecraft was launched when I was in Pre University 2 in Raffles Institution. It is a testimony to the engineering (frugal and with deliberate redundancy) that both Voyager spacecrafts are sending back data and now from outside the heliosphere. Did not realise that the Voyager's computers have only 70 kb of RAM!!!!

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     Nitin Pai (nitin@thinktanki.social)'s status on Monday, 18-Dec-2023 12:05:11 JST Nitin Pai

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     @harishpillay I think scarce energy and computing resources led to a more careful and thoughtful form of engineering (and user behaviour). Abundance enables some great features but comes at the cost of overcomplex and less careful designs.

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     Nitin Pai (nitin@thinktanki.social)'s status on Monday, 18-Dec-2023 16:51:41 JST Nitin Pai

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     @harishpillay I think so too. But Senthil Mullainathan’s work on scarcity outlines its downsides too. Focusing on managing scarcity causes us to miss opportunities that are outside the focus area.

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     Harish Pillay (harishpillay@floss.social)'s status on Monday, 18-Dec-2023 16:51:43 JST Harish Pillay

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     @nitin true. abundance does not extract preciseness in thinking. when one works within serious constraints, the innovation that happens is what makes it all worthwhile.

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     Nitin Pai (nitin@thinktanki.social)'s status on Monday, 18-Dec-2023 17:03:55 JST Nitin Pai

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     @harishpillay See https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2014/12/taming-the-ticking-mind/

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     Harish Pillay (harishpillay@floss.social)'s status on Monday, 18-Dec-2023 17:03:56 JST Harish Pillay

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     • Nitin Pai

     @nitin the scarcity mindset is actually powerful. it brings forth a discipline that you would not have needed/tried/attempted. Abundance reminds me of the Law of Large Numbers which has utility simply because of the size/abundance.