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This is funny, but it's like saying "Math is basically pluses and minuses".

I see coding as playing with hardware without having to use soldering iron.

A marathon is just putting one foot in front of the other, after all. What’s the big deal? I mean a two year old can do that, and they can’t even handle logic yet.

As a marathon runner, people sometimes ask "How does a person run for 3 hours O.O" and well it's about the same as running for 5 minutes except you don't stop.

Simple != easy

Strength training is equally simple. Just keep increasing the weight you lift.

Being thin is also easy, just don’t eat too much.

They said simple, not easy.

Being pedantic is simple, you just say things that don't contain detectable errors.

(I'm agreeing with you about "simple, not easy")

Mathematics is "just" set theory and everything else, including arithmetic, can be built on top of that.

Honestly that's not a great example given that you can't understand ZFC until you already know enough set theory to understand the motivations for ZFC.

Well, it is just counting natural numbers and making up placeholders for whenever a subtraction or division wouldn't work out.

Yeah we went beyond Presburger a long while ago

Maybe math is just equations and sets.

It is just sets! Set theories like Zermelo–Fraenkel can be the foundations for all of mathematics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set_theory

I think he knows.

Math is just writing on a blackboard. Equations and sets optional.

Math is just addition and subtraction.

Coding is just copy and pasting boilerplate code and googling how to make it work.

Copilot. FTFY.

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