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If you have infinite time and resources with perfect communication/understanding you can solve a lot of engineering problems. No one has that. This is where the
by giantrobot 4y ago
If you have infinite time and resources with perfect communication/understanding you can solve a lot of engineering problems. No one has that. This is where the original quoted claim from the article comes from, "building a web browser is impossible". That's encoding a lot of experience and reality of the Brobdingnagian challenge of building a web browser from scratch on 2023's web.
It's not negativity to point out a downside to an approach to a particular problem. It's potentially useful to get feedback on a development approach. Constructive criticism is very important in engineering projects because it encodes assumptions of limitations we all have.
A positive statement like "oh those sub problems are solvable!" doesn't really provide any help. No shit the problems are solvable in a perfect world. Such statements aren't even necessarily constructive because they don't offer any analysis or advice. It smacks of toxic positivity[0].
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxic_positivity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxic_positivity
- naikrovek 4y agonot all positivity is toxic positivity, you know. I wasn't even positive, I was just anti-negative. being against negativity is not the same as being positive at all. spouting out a problem you foresee being revealed after another problem is solved is not constructive criticism, it is reactionary and attention-seeking. my comment is about comments like yours; unlimited time and energy to mention anything that makes what I say sound bad, improbable or difficult, and zero time or energy to even entertain the idea that my point of view is valid, and worth considering. toxic negativity.