Re: WSL keeps getting better, and it's because Microsoft is finally? admitting where developers want to be

On 2026-07-06, Lawrence D’Oliveiro <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:50:10 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>
>> To keep myself on the rails I often remind myself of Hanlon's Razor:
>>
>>     Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained
>>     by stupidity.
>>
>> Then a little voice in the back of my mind says, "But Microsoft
>> isn't stupid!"
>
> Individual intelligence can often add up to collective stupidity. All
> too often, in fact: like when the decisions of individual drivers on
> the road add up to a collective traffic jam.
>
> Well, you could think of Microsoft’s current state as kind of a
> corporate traffic jam.

I've always wondered about a formula for the collective intelligence
of a group of people.  It certainly would not be simply the sum of
their IQs; you'd have to divide it by some other factor, perhaps
the log or the square root of the number of people.  Or maybe the
factor would have to rise more quickly so that the collective IQ
starts decreasing beyond a certain point.

    A committee is a life form with six or more legs
    and no brain.
      -- Heinlein: The Notebooks of Lazarus Long


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