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> That's my whole experience with programming.
>
> Actually, with programming, it feels like now it's all
> about battling the technologies and libraries in order to
> do what should be simple tasks. Really.

"Software entropy's a bitch, and then we die."

- Anonymous and deceased Python adherent

> Don't get me starte with "mental illness", in detaching
> myself from the world I've come to hold some opinions
> that the vast majority won't like, and which go opposite
> to the official narratives.

Aw, c'mon! Get started! ;-)

>> Surely you're not going to leave me hanging as to title!
>
> Why, I am talking about Tarot, of course!

Ah...! You know, I had a "Crowley deck" once upon a time, but now I don't remember anything about Tarot overall.

>> Hey, that's what marriage - aka struggling so mightily to
>> keep up with someone else's wants/needs that there's no
>> time/energy left for self pity et. al. - is for! ;-)
>
> I have been all to aware of this lately. I had to delete
> all my books because my reading was making my partner
> depressed. Now I have to find something to do, preferably
> with my hands... idk.

"Matrimony's a bitch, and then you doghouse."

- Anonymous premature vows fool

> Sorry for the short reply, I am empty right now.

That's okay. I mean, I *was* starting to think I'd ruffled your feathers somehow. I seem to have upper echelon skills in that department, you see....

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~detritus wrote (thread):

"Software entropy's a bitch, and then we die."

Honestly I feel we are rapidly approaching software heat death. Especially now that people are starting to get LLMs to write their code for them!

I actually think that the whole state of affairs with software is caused by a whole superstructure that is kept in order to keep up a market for developers in order to circulate money, which requires them to stack complexity and make things 1000x harder than they should be.

My views on "mental illness" are more or less the same. We make up an artificial standard of what it means to be a normal, or at any rate functional, human being, which actually just means supporting the same money-circulating superstructures with inane labour, and we create a whole artificial set of habits and alimentary patterns that make us sick, and now we create yet another market to give lobotomizing drugs to people so that they can keep walking the death treadmill of money.

We really are forced to live the worst lives possibles, human beings have been turned into cattle these days.

So yeah, you don't really want to get me started on this.

That's okay. I mean, I *was* starting to think I'd ruffled your feathers somehow. I seem to have upper echelon skills in that department, you see....

Try me! Here's a tip: you'd have to hold on to ordinary (some would say safe) views on a topic to really rustle my feathers.

Anyway you should know by now that (so long as you're not actually hostile), however the guy on the other side reacts to your words, that is their problem, not yours!

This is the internet, after all :-)

I would really like to elaborate more but these days my brain isn't in verbose mode. I hope you understand.