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Would you rather consume a bowl of soup with a fly in it, or a 50 gallon drum with 1,000 flies in it? In which scenario are you more likely to fish out all the flies before you eat one?

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Easier to skim 1000 flies from a single drum than 100 flies from 100 bowls of soup.

Alas, the flies are not floating on the surface. They are deeply mixed in, almost as if the machine that generated the soup wanted desperately to appear to be doing an excellent job making fly-free soup.

… while not having a real distinction between flies and non-fly ingredients.

No, I think it would be far easier to pick 100 flies each from a single bowl of soup than to pick all 1000 flies out of a 50 gallon drum.

You don’t get to fix bugs in code by simply pouring it through a filter.

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