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There’s a saying that anybody can design a bridge that will withstand a load, but it takes an engineer to design a bridge that will just barely withstand a load
by mikeash 8y ago
There’s a saying that anybody can design a bridge that will withstand a load, but it takes an engineer to design a bridge that will just barely withstand a load.
In other words, limiting resource usage and cost is the whole point of the game. Yes, you can solve it by throwing a fancy expensive CPU at it, but that’s not necessarily good engineering.
- perl4ever 8y agoThere's also a saying that if a bridge cracks 1/3 of the way through, that is not a safety factor of 3.