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I mean, in software engineering we try to avoid unnecessary dependencies right? This is exactly what's happening, why would those clocks ever depend on the powe
by spdionis 9y ago
I mean, in software engineering we try to avoid unnecessary dependencies right? This is exactly what's happening, why would those clocks ever depend on the power grid??
EDIT: Nevermind, sounds like there are precision concerns that justify using the power grid for timekeeping.
- LaGrange 9y ago> I mean, in software engineering we try to avoid unnecessary dependencies right? I/you wish.
- Piskvorrr 9y agoIndeed. There's a tradeoff in both directions - either you trust the cloud^W grid, or you trust your local clock, and both of them have failure modes; there's no one clearly superior option here. You could combine them, but then it gets complex in short order.
- baq 9y ago> in software engineering we try to avoid unnecessary dependencies leftpad would like to have a word
- Piskvorrr 9y agoPutting Lego blocks together is engineering now? Edit: NPM has engineering challenges, and Node as well...but I would be extremely hesitant to call a library of ~ten LoC "engineering."
- baq 9y agoi'm not a fan of what the JS ecosystem looks like, but you can and will get bitten by transitive dependencies if you don't store them all in a local mirror that doesn't respect upstream deletions...
- Piskvorrr 9y agoOf course. But that's an engineering problem worthy of the name (cache-invalidation and whatnot).