@MercurialBlack @dushman though there is a special type of autist who will put up with the most abysmal artificial problems imaginable and see them as puzzles to be solved by a clever hacker. these are people who are like, moderately above average enough in intelligence to be clever hackers, but not smart enough otherwise (or maybe they just lack a soul) to realize that we shouldn't just uncritically accept all the non-problems that the tech industry creates for itself by having no standards whatsoever for itself -- something which is quite foreign to basically any other professional field, let alone something that is supposedly "engineering"