Re:Why senior developers fail to communicate their expertise
by lnenad on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @04:11PM
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What are we talking about? Philosophically yes. Factually, no. In the context of a system innovation could be switching from one form that renders in 1 second to another that renders in 50ms. Stability isn't part of that equation.
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Re:Why senior developers fail to communicate their expertise
by nine_k on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @04:38PM
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Is this switching risk-free? Consider all these ancient computer devices that run high-stakes equipment for years and decades without change. An RPi could replace an ancient PDP-11, cost a fraction, consume a fraction of energy, be faster, etc. But it also may introduce new and unknown failure modes.