josef on Nostr: for the user, they want to press a button and get the expected result most of the ...
for the user, they want to press a button and get the expected result most of the time. for the developer, they want an optimal, perfect algorithm that solves every mathematically possible permutation of the problem at any scale, and, seeing the mess the real world presents them, would rather completely elide the feature than entertain the idea that a problem can be solved satisfactorily in a way that isn't fully generalizable
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