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The think about programming that always gets me, is how things that sound very hard, can be very easy...

and things that sound very easy, can be very hard or impossible.

"the main lesson of thirty-five years of AI research is that the hard problems are easy and the easy problems are hard." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec%27s_paradox

“And check whether the photo is of a bird”

https://xkcd.com/1425/

I also like the “uncrop” photo enhancement from Red Dwarf.

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