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Re:Efficiency is dangerous and slowing down makes life better by Florin_Andrei on Friday August 21, 2020 @11:33PM (#24241295)
> A lot of things are neither stable nor efficient.

Yes, and those are the shitty things.

But when you want to improve them, make them non-shitty, you're facing a choice: stability, or high performance - pick one.

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Re:Efficiency is dangerous and slowing down makes life better by xwdv on Saturday August 22, 2020 @01:42PM (#24245752)
Life is short and we’re not building generational ships so let’s just go fast and efficient and if it crashes it crashes, but by then the lion’s share of profits will have been made and maybe even spent.
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