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jacqueline 🌟 (jacqueline@chaos.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 16:03:07 JST jacqueline 🌟

so far my main impression of irc is i don't understand how it can simultaneously be *this* complicated whilst also lacking so many of the features i've come to expect of chat platforms

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  Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 16:23:39 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
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  @jacqueline I guess in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/waterbed_theory kind of complexity? So simple it pushes complexity to the users.
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    Waterbed theory
    
    Waterbed theory is the observation, ascribed to Larry Wall, that some systems, such as human and computer languages, contain a minimum amount of complexity, and that attempting to "push down" the complexity of such a system in one place will invariably cause complexity to "pop up" elsewhere. This behavior is likened to a waterbed mattress which contains a certain amount of water; it is possible to push down the mattress in one place, but the displaced water will always cause the mattress to rise elsewhere, because water does not compress. It is impossible to push down the waterbed everywhere at once, because the volume of the water remains a constant. Waterbed theory has been cited as a significant part of the design philosophy of Raku. See also Variety (cybernetics) References
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  Brett Edmond Carlock (brett_e_carlock@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 16:38:05 JST Brett Edmond Carlock
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  @lanodan @jacqueline Fun read, learned a new thing.
  Thanks!
  
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