• EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works
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    7 months ago

    To be fair, we only know where Bluetooth is useful because we put it in a lot of places where it wasn’t useful

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      7 months ago

      Trial and error isn’t the only way to optimize things… It’s actually one of the worst, the one you use when you have no clue how to proceed

      So no, that is not a justification for having done it or continue to do it

      Now I wonder if substituting the sugar in my coffee with arsenic would render a delicious new beverage… Only one way to find out!

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        7 months ago

        I’m not talking about trial and error, I’m talking about throwing shit at the wall and seeing what sticks.

        There might be good ideas out there that no one could think of until they accidentally get invented