• AAA@feddit.org
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    5 months ago

    Survivorship bias. We only see the “good old programs” because the bad ones didn’t make it until now.

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      5 months ago

      Yes

      And while not exactly applicable for the computer example but generally everytime this example is brought up

      ROMANS DID NOT HAVE 40 FUCKING TON TRUCKS

      Much less so 100s per hour

      Roman infrastructure was/is impressive no doubt

      But not that impressive