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Feynman’s Razor


If an expert can't understand your explanation, you've dumbed it down too much!

I was thinking about this recently because of a HN discussion (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40535868) where people were making fun of this nonsensical error message: My favorite comment was from lisper who said basically, “guys, chill, there is a legit technical edge case here, it’s just difficult to explain to the layperson. I caught myself violating this recently, when working on my “substack-proxy” tool (to get around twitter censorship of substack posts).

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