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    ideas with no tangibility;
    ideas with irrelevant supports;
    ideas without value;
    ideas' witlessness;
    ideas' witnesses;
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    2022-06-19: Some things I've been thinking about

    	The UNIX philosophy ("create things that do one thing well") is a
    mandate rather than a suggestion; programs can and will fall under their own
    weight if you allow them to become too complex with too many things dependent
    on other things. From a software design standpoint I've found this to be very
    useful.
    	However, I think focusing on software complexity is treating the
    symptoms of Bad Computing rather than the disease. The core issue is that
    humans should not have to change themselves for a machine - the machine should
    only ever be changed for the human. After all, a computer is simply a tool.
    Interchangeable (right?), repairable (right?), intuitive (right?), and a means
    to an end (right?).
    	Lately humans have been having to change themselves for machines. There
    are easily comprehendable issues - e.g. "I don't have a first name, how do I
    fill out this form?" - but there are also denser, deeper problems in this
    regard - in fact, even computer literacy education is itself changing humans in
    favor of machines. Software should be designed to be basically intuitive to
    someone that's never used a computer and ideally need no further skills.
    	This probably started with the Old Engineers who were basically
    breathing computer before computers were even existent in their modern form.
    Graybeards (women and nonbinary fellows included within this word, use your
    imagination) didn't need to change themselves for computers because they and
    machina were already kin. Then they made simple interfaces for the restivus and
    hoped it was enough, and it was for a while.
    	Once we defeat the status quo, the rest will be easy.

    	The Center for Disease Control in the United States isn't perfect but I
    trust them a bit more than a bald guy on Spotify.

    	Today's Juneteenth, which is a memory to a pretty cool event, the end
    of lawful slavery in the United States.