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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/programmer_humor

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yep, we disagree. The world and technology especially is an extremely complicated place. IMO any complex system that is built upon "humans should just know all this complexity and keep it in mind all the time" is fundamentally broken.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It depends. We may have our differences in weighing things, but yes, complexity of the system must correlate with complexity of the task it is used for. A system allowing to do things without any complexity means either no complex things to be done or straight up magic