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20 years ago, one could bet that an online or offline discussion of a computer science edge case would be held by people *trained* for computer science. They not only could solve edge cases, they lived for them. Some thought that a priesthood, but it was really just a profession. Now there is a web of people from all walks of life and background attempting to program with tools that are designed with an 80/20 philosophy. This philosophy guarantees edge cases are not only difficult, but are often obtuse and abstract to one trying to solve the last 20% of their problems with only 20% of the necessary knowledge. This is the result of the tradeoff for ubiquitous egalitarian computing systems. Every bit of complexity pushes a few more people off the back of the turnip truck of self-educated programmers. 80/20 does not guarantee ubiquity; it guarantees elites, but the the alternative is to segregate training by profession. The real world is as it makes itself and not what it considers itself. This is the root of misunderstanding that those trained in science attempt to overcome by testing. len
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