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by jmchuster 1136 days ago
It's the scale of it.

"Here is a vaguely understood problem, that might take 2 hours to solve."

"Here is a vaguely understood problem, that might take 2 years to solve."

Though if you're used to the latter timescale, you might not consider the former as all that "vaguely" understood.