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Plus no tests, no original developers, and most of the time - _but just most of the time_ - it "just works"...

• sigmoid10 3y ago
  I'd say the coding and testing toolchain doesn't work most of the time. In fact it rarely does. But since we only see code changes that didn't kill the entire system permanently, we're left with a a huge amount of legacy trash and a few things on top of it that worked out by amazing coincidences accumulated over millions of years.
  • LocalH 3y ago
    So what you're saying is that the universe does cargo cult :kekw:
    • sigmoid10 3y ago
      It's even worse. A cargo cult has a reasonable, comparatively narrow scenario or goal to start with.
      • LocalH 3y ago
        I mean, from the universe's perspective, the whole of Earth is a quite small thing
• astrange 3y ago
  There's an integration test called natural selection.