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On the one hand I basically agree with what you said on the other: 'I mean, how many human lifetimes have been consumed by the shitty intricacies of dynamic linking alone. '

I guess none, by any normal measure of human lifetimes and consumption thereof.

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If you add it all up though? I'd say I've probably spent as many as several person-days dealing with dynamic linking nonsense over my career, let's round that up to a week. Fifty weeks a year, 80 years in a life, if there's just 4000 people like me in the world that's a human lifetime right there.

(No pedants please, if you don't like "fifty weeks a year" then change "80 years" to "76.9 years")

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