Re: (Excessive?) Complexity

On Mon, 10 Feb 2025, rbowman wrote:

On Sun, 9 Feb 2025 22:50:12 +0100, D wrote:
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Sometimes when I'm in the mood for a challenge, I do not write it down,
but I simply remember the list.  Works just as well.

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I've never been much of a list maker or note taker. When it was suggested
I bring a notebook to programming meetings I dutifully bought a pink Hello
Kitty notebook. Nobody commented. I did use it for a few cryptic notes to

Very powerful, very cute! Did colleagues look strangely at you?

myself and for bug numbers. What I'm not good at is remembering numbers
like CS-37395,
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That was a problem when I was reading Buddhism. Those people love
lists.Four Aryan Truths, the Noble Eightfold Path, the Twelve Links of
Dependent Origination, and on and on.
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I think Schopenhauer had list envy when he wrote 'On the Fourfold Root of
the Principle of Sufficient Reason'.

This is the truth. He clearly was inspired by buddhism when coming up with that title.