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Re:Why Bloat Is Still Software's Biggest Vulnerability by preommr on Friday February 09, 2024 @08:53PM (#39322753)
This reminds of Asimov's awful "The Feeling of Power" where in the future mankind has forgotten how to do basic math and someone has rediscovered it to the astonishment of the people in power who now intend to use it to their advantage in war.

I hate that short story because of how silly it is. I get the point that it's trying to make, but it's packaged in such an absurdly unrealistic way that it loses all impact.

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Re:Why Bloat Is Still Software's Biggest Vulnerability by klooney on Friday February 09, 2024 @11:40PM (#39323640)
Hey, I think about that story all the time too, I'm glad I'm not the only one it's haunting.
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Re:Why Bloat Is Still Software's Biggest Vulnerability by jodrellblank on Friday February 09, 2024 @11:09PM (#39323506)
This reminds of Asimov's story where in the future mankind has forgotten how food tastes, and are having a computer-designed-flavours competition, and someone has rediscovered growing plants in soil makes delicious garlic to the astonishment of the judges, who are later horrified and disgusted when they learn the truth about what he fed them.

https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/209233/short-story...

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Re:Why Bloat Is Still Software's Biggest Vulnerability by vonjuice on Friday February 09, 2024 @10:51PM (#39323404)
I always considered Asimov to have good ideas but he's a pretty bad writer, specially of female characters.
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Re:Why Bloat Is Still Software's Biggest Vulnerability by CyberDildonics on Saturday February 10, 2024 @12:05AM (#39323751)
specially

I think you mean 'especially'.

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Re:Why Bloat Is Still Software's Biggest Vulnerability by vonjuice on Saturday February 10, 2024 @08:56PM (#39332007)
No.
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Re:Why Bloat Is Still Software's Biggest Vulnerability by CyberDildonics on Saturday February 10, 2024 @09:21PM (#39332128)
It's either especially or it doesn't make sense
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Re:Why Bloat Is Still Software's Biggest Vulnerability by flenserboy on Saturday February 10, 2024 @10:23AM (#39326761)
Perhaps "human" would be a better substitution. There's a reason his robots are far more memorable than the other characters he crafted.
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Re:Why Bloat Is Still Software's Biggest Vulnerability by vonjuice on Saturday February 10, 2024 @08:51PM (#39331987)
Yeah but it's more grating on the stories I read with female protagonists.
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