• marcos@lemmy.world
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    28 days ago

    We don’t. We keep just doing things and good things keep happening afterwards.

    We don’t even know if those two facts are linked in any way.

    • degen@midwest.social
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      28 days ago

      Nearly irrelevant xkcd

      At least in software we know where the linchpins are on some level.

    • Azuth@lemmy.today
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      27 days ago

      Descartes said it best. The only thing I can know for sure is that I do, in fact, exist.