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Cake day: December 24th, 2023

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  • Replying from my alt:

    I was trying to make a joke but seems it rubbed off the wrong way. Although I do think there’s a philosophical discussion of complexity to be had here.

    The problem with thinking “We have now simplified xyz software” is software developers have this bad habit of often assuming that the world updates to the latest and greatest version of software the moment they deploy it and they erase any semblence of past versions, shortcomings, or even workarounds that others may have deployed and trained their muscle memories on.

    Complexity actually goes up the more versions of software that are released in the world.

    You now have neovim <= 0.12, <= 0.13, 0.13 to keep in your head if someone comes to you for advice on how to setup this cool editor on their distro and they may or may not be able to upgrade to the latest version.