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this article is indeed cool and almost all examples are good, but this example is in my opinion heavily forced or even wrong? >And you can’t drive as fast when
by tester756 5y ago
this article is indeed cool and almost all examples are good, but this example is in my opinion heavily forced or even wrong?
>And you can’t drive as fast when it’s raining, even though your car has windshield wipers and headlights and a roof and a heater, all of which protect you from caring about the fact that it’s raining (they abstract away the weather), but lo, you have to worry about hydroplaning (or aquaplaning in England) and sometimes the rain is so strong you can’t see very far ahead so you go slower in the rain, because the weather can never be completely abstracted away, because of the law of leaky abstractions.
- belden 5y agoI think it’s contrived simply for a pun: > leaky abstractions > > hydroplaning > hydroplaning requires: - water (“leaky”) - sliding (“...traction”) - lack of _brakes_ (“abs...”) Well, and speed too.