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Re: *nix

From	Felmon Davis <davisf@union.edu>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: *nix
Date	2020-02-16 23:50 +0100
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On Sun, 16 Feb 2020, Curt wrote:

> On 2020-02-15, John Kaufmann <kaufmann@nb.net> wrote:
>>
>> Just so. At what point does a small and natural generalization of "one
>> thing" become more complex than a new thing? Simplicity is the friend,
>> complexity the enemy; order the friend, entropy the enemy. It takes a
>> lifetime of design to see where to draw those lines, and we never stop
>> learning.
>
> That members of the most generalist species on earth should extol the
> merits of the most extreme form of specialisation is something of an
> ironic puzzlement here in the balcony seats.

makes me think of the fallacy of composition - a big wall of bricks 
doesn't need to be composed of big bricks.

plus I suppose a lot of generalists are specialists in something or 
other.

also from the balcony.


-- 
Felmon
Pronouns: It / Them / Something

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*nix ghe <ghe@slsware.net> - 2020-02-15 22:10 +0100
  Re: *nix <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-02-15 22:20 +0100
    Re: *nix John Kaufmann <kaufmann@nb.net> - 2020-02-15 22:50 +0100
      Re: *nix Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2020-02-16 13:40 +0100
        Re: *nix Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2020-02-16 16:50 +0100
        Re: *nix Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2020-02-16 17:50 +0100
        Re: *nix Felmon Davis <davisf@union.edu> - 2020-02-16 23:50 +0100
          Re: *nix <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-02-17 09:40 +0100
  Re: *nix Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2020-02-16 01:40 +0100
  Re: *nix Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2020-02-16 04:20 +0100
    Re: *nix Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-02-16 10:00 +0100
      Re: *nix Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <eduardo@kalinowski.com.br> - 2020-02-16 11:10 +0100

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