Ask HN: What Does “Trivial” Mean?

When I've encountered it, it has usually meant something requiring very low effort or resources. Example:

* Mental resources ("Adding another auth provider to the ones we already support is 'trivial'/straightforward")

* Time ("Re-implementing this with the proposed approach before release should be 'trivial'/not require much time")

* Machine resources ("Doing this additional operation in the iteration is 'trivial'/won't have enough of a performance impact to worry about in this case")

Mental = I can do it while sleep deprived

Time = It won't change the schedule

Resources = The costs would be rounded down to zero

It means easy, not involving any obstacle or difficult steps. It's directly lifted from mathematical jargon ("the proof of this statement is trivial", "it is trivial to see that A -> B", etc.).

Depends on context.