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Re:What Factors Explain the Nature of Software? by jprete on Tuesday May 14, 2024 @01:34PM (#40357747)
"Just barely passable" is the endless customer support carousel, the nickel-and-diming of airline fees, the addition of more and more ad space and cloned-content spam to web pages, and automobiles that spy on you to sell the data to marketers.
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Re:What Factors Explain the Nature of Software? by dllthomas on Tuesday May 14, 2024 @02:28PM (#40358439)
But if we updated our standards such that we no longer accept those things, they would no longer be passable, and something else would be "just barely passable".

My point - inasmuch as there was a serious one - wasn't that we shouldn't raise our standards but that the framing isn't particularly helpful in determining whether we should (while rhetorically sounding like it is).

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