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Our Brain Typically Overlooks This Brilliant Problem-Solving Strategy (www.scientificamerican.com)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago

This reminds me of UNIX where much of the code was basically "removing things from multics". Or, in case of C, removing everything from B and then re-adding it. Possibly this was a subconscious workaround.

Removing is hard, maybe because it's less intuitive that the already present features aren't "removed" in the subtractive process?