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by learnstats2 2309 days ago
but... that type of program doesn't exist.

Most (non-technical) people settle for using software that isn't really designed for their use case.

Non-technical people use a lot of magical hacking to make things work approximately how they want.

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>but... that type of program doesn't exist.

I was thinking of Unix command line tools. Every one of them comes with a buttload of parameters and some of them make me think 'why would you ever need this?!' :)