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Re:Once You're Laid Off, You'll Never Be the Same Again by yadaeno on Monday January 27, 2025 @09:28AM (#42841457)
This theory feels like it’s making tons of assumptions and leans heavily on semantics.

In a factory you have many components operating near or at capacity. In a high growth environment you want all of your components working at capacity to explore the problem space and optimize.

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Re:Once You're Laid Off, You'll Never Be the Same Again by ipnon on Monday January 27, 2025 @08:05PM (#42847739)
Yes, think of it like this: the point of the Tortoise and the Hare isn't to go to the pet store and start a racing league.
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Re:Once You're Laid Off, You'll Never Be the Same Again by michaelhoney on Monday January 27, 2025 @09:07PM (#42848133)
The book is worth reading. Unless your work is highly parallelised, it’s hard to not create bottlenecks.
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