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bubblyworld ◴[30 Aug 25 04:45 UTC] No.45071966[source]▶

Simplicity is brittle. Perhaps we should take a page from nature. Nothing in nature in simple, and yet it has built some of the most robust systems (by far) that we know of.

Can your software run for millions of years?

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tim333 ◴[30 Aug 25 10:04 UTC] No.45073397[source]▶

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The sun is basically a ball of hydrogen that fuses into helium but it seems to be hanging in there.

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1. bubblyworld ◴[30 Aug 25 13:39 UTC] No.45074615[source]▶

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The sun doesn't solve any problems in a useful sense. I'm talking about life! I thought that would be obvious haha.

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Do the simplest thing that could possibly work