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theshrike79today at 10:25 AM1 replyview on HN

If others have built a whole-ass house and I just occasionally need the kitchen table I had to just deal with the hassle of having a whole house and just used the table. And even the table was the wrong shape, but I could deal with it. Asking the Others to make the table modifiable would've been a massive effort of PRs and mailing lists I didn't want to get into.

Now I can build a bespoke table in an evening or two and it fits my stuff just perfectly.

I could do it before too, but it would've taken too long for me to bother, so I dealt with the whole house along with the table.


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skydhashtoday at 11:03 AM

There’s a lot of small programs out there. Especially if you go to the BSDs where small programs are the norm.