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Re:The XB-70 (2019) by Zeetah on Tuesday February 25, 2025 @04:19PM (#43177552)
One of my favorite things is in the watch world, every mechanism besides showing time is called complication. When one talks about a feature, or an item as a complication, just the act of doing that forces one to be more deliberate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complication_(horology)

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Re:The XB-70 (2019) by rbanffy on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @04:07AM (#43182082)
I like to say that whatever the complexity is, it is in the nature of the problem itself and isn’t something that’s open for us to design. Only when we design a solution we risk introducing complication.

Of course, we can always choose to solve the least complex problem.

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