<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Thank you Kara & James for sharing! It’s always educational to see what the folks on hacker news think about things :)<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’ve been mulling how the cartoon would look if we took out the word “digital” so that it’s captioned “All Modern Infrastructure.” The dependency nicely depicted by XKCD might be apt for the unregulated, unlicensed world of software. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">But for electricians or construction workers, who have to comply with all kinds of industry codes and state/federal regulations, this approach to dependencies might be… [trying to think of the right word]… criminal?<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Andy</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Aug 18, 2020, at 11:13 AM, James Howison <<a href="mailto:jhowison@ischool.utexas.edu" class="">jhowison@ischool.utexas.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Love it! I always learn something from people discussing these online, like on HackerNews: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24193278" class="">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24193278</a> (long discussion of ImageMagick in there)<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">And the explainxkcd wiki): <a href="https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2347:_Dependency" class="">https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2347:_Dependency</a></div><div class=""><br clear="all" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">James Howison<div class=""><br class=""><div class="">Associate Professor</div><div class="">School of Information</div><div class="">University of Texas at Austin</div><div class=""><a href="http://james.howison.name/" target="_blank" class="">http://james.howison.name</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br class=""></div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 9:13 AM Kara Andersen <<a href="mailto:karalynn.andersen@gmail.com" class="">karalynn.andersen@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" class=""><div class="">Hello Maintainers -</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In case you haven’t seen it already, I thought I’d share this XKCD comic about maintenance.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Kara</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span id="cid:174021f9d8c8e39de351"><dependency_2x.png></span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div>Permalink: <a href="https://xkcd.com/2347/" target="_blank" class="">https://xkcd.com/2347/</a></div>_______________________________________________<br class="">
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