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1. Ekaitz Zárraga 👹 (ekaitz_zarraga@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Jul-2023 08:10:58 JST Ekaitz Zárraga 👹

   I have to go back to my work in the bootstrapping for RISC-V and let me tell you a secret: I don't really care that much about bootstrapping. As many other problems in the world, this is not specially interesting.
   I really just want to move on to something else.
   I don't like this problem because it's too complex and makes me think I have to fix many (bad) decisions others took before me. We are paying the bills of the past.

   The problem itself is boring, but it has interesting side-quests.

   • minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Jul-2023 08:10:57 JST minute

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     @ekaitz_zarraga sorry for my ignorance, but what exactly is this project?

   • Ekaitz Zárraga 👹 (ekaitz_zarraga@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Jul-2023 08:10:58 JST Ekaitz Zárraga 👹

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     I'd probably prefer spending my time in other kinds of projects where the main quest is the most interesting one.

     Bootstrapping is really important. We are making history.

     But there are too many things that are still broken that we won't fix so why focus on that one and not any other. Fight against years and years of design decisions, poorly written codebases and tons of complexity.
     Honestly, I don't know why am I doing this.

     Maybe because I wouldn't get paid doing anything else.