Interesting that he does not like hotels (I am getting the same way but about bedbugs, not giving them my name) and asking strangers to put you up is ok but I suspect my list may be similar. Except for parrots.
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts" – Richard Feynman
If you realize that this is the result of 35 years of continuous development across a wide range of compute platforms, there's a certain sense to it. It's internally consistent with its development history. Not that it doesn't suck.
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