Tesler's Law
soupspaces
11 points
3 comments
July 26, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (3 comments)
smalltorch
Didn't Larry create copy paste? Its a great program.
doolta
Feynman's Law (if it had existed): "If you can’t make it simple, you don’t understand it yet. Stop shifting the complexity around like a coward and go simplify it, you absolute unit."
aappleby
Most complexity can be transformed into a set of interlocking simple systems, but getting there is haaaaard.