I think this sort of epistemic humility is helpful for all sorts of things. There are fascinating and deep fields of human endeavor which *you will never learn exist.* When you cross one of them off the list by accident, treat that as a fun opportunity to learn.https://twitter.com/steveklabnik/status/1306575739635077126 …
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Patrick McKenzie Retweeted Mark McGranaghan
Also is a bit of irony: a) c.f. Patio11's Law b) I had never heard word one of Snowflake until the S-1 dropped either.https://twitter.com/mmcgrana/status/1260250538299408387 …
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A necessary corollary of "software eats the world" is that the space of all software becomes approximately coextensive with the space of all human endeavors and, therefore, strictly beyond the comprehension of any single mortal mind.
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Interesting question: when did we pass that boundary? My hunch: much further back than is commonly assumed. 1965? 1970?
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