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49 // Software longevity

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There's a lot of things that need to go right for soft ware to work. If your wrench is rusty, you kow i dosn't work as well, but it still basically works as a wrench. Whereas if you have one bit off in your soft ware, it just crashes. It's very high dimensional, and it's very sensitive to errors in preserving the environment. So here you've got a compiled executable. You can down load it. You don't need the dependency chain. And i think there's the feeling that, shouldn't that just kind of work forever? But of course, it sits within this context of the system. Even something as simple as a static web

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