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   mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 05-Apr-2024 01:11:29 JST mcc

   *quietly under breath* *but in text* i hate unity i hate unity i hate unity i hate unity i hate unity i hate unity i hate unity i hate unity i hate unity i hate unity i hate unity i hate unity i hate unity i hate unity i hate unity i hate unity

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 05-Apr-2024 01:11:27 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • William Pietri

     @williampietri @mcc
     One of the great philosophical lessons that programming has given us is that magic and mystery are the product of complexity, not irrationality

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     William Pietri (williampietri@sfba.social)'s status on Friday, 05-Apr-2024 01:11:28 JST William Pietri

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     @mcc People were once afraid that computers would suck all the magic and mystery from the world, so good news?

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 05-Apr-2024 01:11:29 JST mcc

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     I wish to go back to doing Computer Science instead of Computer Magic. I would like "does my program work or not?" to be based on whether I have followed a proper series of rationally composed steps rather than the phase of the moon or whether or not my offerings of frog entrails are correctly aligned with the correct constellation

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 05-Apr-2024 01:13:23 JST mcc

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     ME: My project isn't working.

     UNITY: There's sample code.

     ME: Oh, right. *Downloads* Hey, I don't get it, the sample project works and mine doesn't, but we have all the same checkboxes checked. Why doesn't my project behave the same?

     UNITY: That one smells different

     ME: What?

     UNITY: Yeah I dunno it just smells different.

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     JP (jplebreton@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 05-Apr-2024 02:56:12 JST JP

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     • Paul Cantrell
     • William Pietri

     @inthehands @williampietri @mcc "any sufficiently advanced complexity is indistinguishable from irrationality"