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<A HREF="..">..</A>
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blah!
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ideas with no tangibility;
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ideas with irrelevant supports;
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ideas without value;
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ideas' witlessness;
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ideas' witnesses;
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ideas-
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2022-06-19: Some things I've been thinking about
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The UNIX philosophy ("create things that do one thing well") is a
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mandate rather than a suggestion; programs can and will fall under their own
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weight if you allow them to become too complex with too many things dependent
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on other things. From a software design standpoint I've found this to be very
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useful.
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However, I think focusing on software complexity is treating the
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symptoms of Bad Computing rather than the disease. The core issue is that
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humans should not have to change themselves for a machine - the machine should
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only ever be changed for the human. After all, a computer is simply a tool.
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Interchangeable (right?), repairable (right?), intuitive (right?), and a means
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to an end (right?).
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Lately humans have been having to change themselves for machines. There
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are easily comprehendable issues - e.g. "I don't have a first name, how do I
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fill out this form?" - but there are also denser, deeper problems in this
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regard - in fact, even computer literacy education is itself changing humans in
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favor of machines. Software should be designed to be basically intuitive to
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someone that's never used a computer and ideally need no further skills.
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This probably started with the Old Engineers who were basically
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breathing computer before computers were even existent in their modern form.
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Graybeards (women and nonbinary fellows included within this word, use your
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imagination) didn't need to change themselves for computers because they and
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machina were already kin. Then they made simple interfaces for the restivus and
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hoped it was enough, and it was for a while.
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Once we defeat the status quo, the rest will be easy.
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The Center for Disease Control in the United States isn't perfect but I
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trust them a bit more than a bald guy on Spotify.
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Today's Juneteenth, which is a memory to a pretty cool event, the end
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of lawful slavery in the United States.
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