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      4 days ago

      Yeah, I think I’ll make a comic that covers everyone’s use case…

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        4 days ago

        “Hey, this is exactly like a strawberry pie, if you replace the strawberry by veggies and meat, and the pie by water. It’s actually a stew.”

        By all means, do whatever comparison you want, but I’ll reserve the right to disagree.

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        5 days ago

        I did, but the direction is reversed. XKCD talks about how standards multiply and get more complex. This is talking about a different motivator for computing technologies, which is having a leaner, simpler alternative, that eventually gets bloated.