It has a long story and a lot of better explanations, but in short

  1. Some character has a problem;
  2. They find a short-term solution;
  3. It later becames unsufficient, and then a problem for them and others.
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[–] 16 points 11 months ago* (2 children)

It’s a fancier way of saying “quick and dirty”. Couldn’t be bothered to build a proper fix, so I simply went with whatever trashy hack that just barely gets the job done.

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  • [–] 9 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Quite often (or maybe even most often), but there's also the realities of simply having to choose a path knowing it will change in 2-5 years.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    I’ve seen that first hand. Workers keep complaining how badly the engineers designed some machine. When I talked to the engineer who designed it, he told me it was fine 10 years ago, but many things have changed since then. Nowadays, the machine is sitting in a place where it wasn’t designed to sit and it’s doing things it wasn’t designed to do.

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