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> This computer stuff is amazingly complicated. I don't know how anyone gets anything done. Indeed.

• elliotec 10y ago
  Quote of the day for sure.
• venomsnake 10y ago
  Mostly by accident.
• mturmon 10y ago
  In particular, the set of exported shell environment variables is a sinkhole of state that can potentially affect every program we run.
  • gosub 10y ago
    If only we had a way to deal with state without it being mutable...
• vacri 10y ago
  When me and my colleagues are tearing our hair out over a problem, I'll often exclaim "These computer things are hard!". It's delivered both as a joke, and also a reminder that it's okay to take a while to figure out the problem in a particularly complex system. Eases the tension a touch.