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You’ve just made the original point I hoped to make far better than I made it.

I think I used fairly intemperate language because I feel (rightly or wrongly) this dogma that all engineering problems and all engineers are just k-equivalent and am sort of frustrated by that feeling.

If some shit isn’t so hard that it’s inaccessible to me, then why should I work and study and sweat to be able to solve the N-1 hard problem?



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