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Re:Linux md maintainer, Shaohua Li, has died by emmelaich on Thursday January 03, 2019 @06:47AM (#18814438)
It simplifies our lives by absorbing complexity.

That is literally the point of software.

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Re:Linux md maintainer, Shaohua Li, has died by pessimizer on Thursday January 03, 2019 @10:41AM (#18815883)
Our lives may be simpler, but the software isn't. Absorbing complexity is literally the opposite of simplification.
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Re:Linux md maintainer, Shaohua Li, has died by bhhaskin on Thursday January 03, 2019 @02:53PM (#18818600)
Totally. The complexity has to go somewhere.
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