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Comment Re: He's correct (Score 1) 122

Well the inefficient micro services that Carmack mentions in the summary do add to safety, correct?

My phone is instant on. In the sense that it reliably stays on for weeks at a time.

Micro services are more maintainable too.

It sounds like the innovation of micro services at the cost of efficiency is something that will eventually be lost (according to Carmack) if hardware stops improvingm

Comment Re:He's correct (Score 1) 122

I don't think Carmack is suggesting that there's any world where we do efficiency for efficiency's sake though.

He seems to be implying the driving force is innovation, and that's easier with micro services for easier development but more hardware.

If hardware stopped getting better and cheaper we'd slow down development. He doesn't even seem to be suggesting (from the summary) that we're making the wrong choice, just observing the impacts of rapid hardware improvement, and that ended we'd still have runway to improve things.

Comment Re:Monoculture (Score 1) 98

I almost wonder if some of this is intentional so that in a year or two the farmers can be sold a new banana tree engineered not to experience all of these problems.

Yes, obviously this was a plan formulated at the discovery of Panama Disease in 1876 with the mustache twirling heavies of our piece smirking as they exclaimed, "in 150 years, we strike! Those fools won't know what hit them!"

Comment Re: Repeat after me (Score 2) 209

Take two steps forward, and two steps back, and then two steps forward, and two steps back, and now we're doing the cha-cha.

Thank you, Chris Knight.

I want their content to disappear as if it never was, whether it was modded up or not. That would be blocking, unlike what you propose.

Yes, I understand--that is not something you can do. You can, however, effectively achieve this by following the instructions given.
You know, the adverb form of "effect." Specifically, definition 2, "in effect; virtually" which rests upon definition 4 of the root word, "the power to bring about a result." So, to answer your snarky question, yes, in effect you can't but you can.

Is your brain not firing on all cylinders this morning, or are you just purposefully being obtuse?

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