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You still have to find these things though. Even if you didn't do it, someone, somewhere did spend all that mental energy. There are no shortcuts to saving effo
by sigmoid10 2mo ago
You still have to find these things though. Even if you didn't do it, someone, somewhere did spend all that mental energy. There are no shortcuts to saving effort in a closed environment. Same way you can't reduce total energy in a closed system. In fact these two are closely related.
- andrewflnr 2mo agoThis seems like it requires such narrow definitions of things like "closed environment" that it loses applicability to the real world. It's a heuristic worth considering, but not a universal principle.
- sigmoid10 2mo agoIt's not that hard though. Until we integrate extraterrestrial code into our package managers, you can call earth our closed environment. And if your company has strict offline and library requirements, you could even define it for your place of work.