This is why I like the Oddmuse channel on Freenode so much… 
- 16:51 CapnDan
- Honestly I don’t understand why people get so religious about different versions of Unix.
- 16:52 kensanata
- Everybody likes to imagine that their decision was rational.
- 16:52 kensanata
- Therefore they infuse the first decision and the facts that influenced it with overproportional importance.
- 16:52 kensanata
- NETBSD IS THE ONLY SECURE OPERATING SYSTEM!!!!
- 16:53 CapnDan
- yeah, there’s a name for that, I was reading about it a few months ago.
- 16:53 CapnDan
- A popular psychology word from last year.
- 16:53 kensanata
- “Moron Syndrome”?
- 16:53 CapnDan
- lol
(Dan later discovers that the term he was looking for is cognitive inertia.)
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