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You need to provide evidence for your claims, specially more if you’re going to trow around numbers. For example why 95%? Why not 5%? Or why not 80%? Please un

• baybal2 8y ago
  This is what I personally think, and given that I worked in a more serious part of tech industry than running diary websites for a big part of my career, I think my though has truth credit to it. Though, my career in serious engineering companies is not that long, I don't see a thing in any serious piece of engineering that ever qualifies as non-obvious. And under serious pieces of engineering I mean things from SCADA for Baosteel's main plant, to widgets for Airbus and EADS. Nor I ever qualify this engineering work as very laborious. Doing "Big engineering" is more about bureaucratic and legal work than doing actual engineering from my own personal impressions. Moreover, whenever "big engineering" is involved, and you hear names like WW groups, EADS, Siemens, Rheinmetal, you don't "innovate." The cost of screwup is so high, that there are even special people employed to watch that nobody dares to replace existing working parts with their "innovation." In general, when doing such work, you want to use most proven and conservative designs over any improvements.
• orbital-decay 8y ago
  >For example why 95%? Why not 5%? Or why not 80%? I'm probably going to assume too much, but I guess @baybal2 comes from a Russian background, and 95% is a meme/figure of speech there, meaning "the overwhelming majority", and doesn't refer to a specific number. It's (possibly) just a case of English as a second language or misunderstanding.