The MTA's Oldest Controls Kept Going During the Tech Outage

Re:The MTA's Oldest Controls Kept Going During the Tech Outage by jmward01 on Sunday July 21, 2024 @09:13PM (#41029997)

Nature has one solution to creating durable complex systems. Create an ecosystem with a lot of diversity in it. Mono-anything is bad because of all the obvious reasons that we have just seen.

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Re:The MTA's Oldest Controls Kept Going During the Tech Outage by somat on Sunday July 21, 2024 @09:45PM (#41030141)

I agree, however note that diverse ecosystems are inefficient, or more accurately, they are inefficient until something comes along that that can kill your highly efficient mono culture. At which point you realize you were using the wrong metric for efficiency all along.

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Re:The MTA's Oldest Controls Kept Going During the Tech Outage by citrin_ru on Tuesday July 23, 2024 @02:19AM (#41043057)

Decentralisation IMHO another key to building durable complex systems. It’s worrisome to see modern systems become more and more centralised.

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