"it's easy to propose a solution if you only understand 10% of the problem" describes 80% of the innovation of the last decade
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@tante me when i worked on a boat and i kept handing various cleaning products to a painter on the dock complaining about being stung by wasps, unshakeable in my belief that if you spray them […]
@tante I am begginging to understand this, finally! There's many things and principles we don't know about when we think we know. It makes me think of the people complaining that certain […]
@tante Obligatory XKCD? xkcd.com/1831/
@tante @tef what‘s the official threshold? *scnr* couldn‘t agree more…
@tante I can't remember who said this but one can compare all the tech bros / tech solutionnists to tourists in fields they know nothing about.
They just barge in, think they understand the […]
@tante I can agree, but with a caveat and example: if you understand your requirements and your requirements are different, then an "incomplete" or "inferior" seeming solution may be […]
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and yet that is the only way progress happens.
2024-12-12 neilk ┃ edited ┃ 1👤
@tante @tef I think this goes back a little further? Worse is better?
(I agree ZIRP software is fucked up in very special ways)
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OK but what about the other 10%? That only adds up to 90%.
@tante What's more difficult is to convince people to accept your solution to a problem that you only understand 10% of.
But it's a skill that clearly exists.
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