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Re:Where did software go wrong? (2020) by namaria on Thursday December 15, 2022 @04:19AM (#33997069)
To nitpick, steam engine and software are products of technique. Technology is the exercise of understanding technique, i.e. this conversation is about technology. But I think we impoverish our language by calling everything related to technical development 'technology'.
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Re:Where did software go wrong? (2020) by galaxyLogic on Friday December 16, 2022 @01:19PM (#34018078)
Good point about terminology.

But then what makes software special is that you can also encode "techniques" in it.

Thus the exercise of trying to understand a program is also "technology"? :-)

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Re:Where did software go wrong? (2020) by namaria on Sunday December 18, 2022 @04:07AM (#34036142)
Sure and biology is just wet physics. Vocabulary is not about set theory, it's about nuance.
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