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Re:Oxide: The Cloud Computer on Thursday October 26, 2023 @02:16PM (#38029601)
> Like humor, humility seems to be in short supply these days.

Hmm...maybe I should have referenced:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_cow_(idiom)

> The motto of the satirical magazine The Realist was "Irreverence is our only sacred cow".

Humor does seem to exist today, it just has a narrow band-pass filter, with apparent focus on "organic" product marketing.

Re:Oxide: The Cloud Computer on Thursday October 26, 2023 @11:17AM (#38026721)
HUMILITY

1. The state or quality of being humble; freedom from pride and arrogance; lowliness of mind; a modest estimate of one's own worth; a sense of one's own unworthiness through imperfection and sinfulness; self-abasement; humbleness.

-- Webster's 1918 Dictionary

Our avionics software was originally spec-ed to not NEED a debugger it was to be of such high quality, but the designer added break point op-codes in the VM anyway. I guess he was aware of the concept of humility, too. ;) Like humor, humility seems to be in short supply these days.

Re:Oxide: The Cloud Computer on Thursday October 26, 2023 @10:45AM (#38026268)
> ... code is also EXTREMELY high quality. If you're an embedded developer go take a look at Hubris and Humility.

So, Humility is like MC/DC?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modified_condition/decision_co...