1. Said of a problem that, although {nontrivial}, can be solved
simply by throwing sufficient resources at it.
2. Also said of problems for which a solution would neither advance
the state of the art nor be fun to design and code.
Hackers regard uninteresting problems as intolerable wastes of time,
to be solved (if at all) by lesser mortals. Real hackers (see
{toolsmith}) generalize uninteresting problems enough to make them
interesting and solve them -- thus solving the original problem as a
special case (and, it must be admitted, occasionally turning a
molehill into a mountain, or a mountain into a tectonic plate). See
{WOMBAT}, {SMOP}; compare {toy problem}, oppose {interesting}.
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