Nothing to do with current events. Nothing to do with (specifically) anything happening in nuclear engineering. Just thought it captured a timeless truth of en

Nothing to do with current events. Nothing to do with (specifically) anything happening in nuclear engineering. Just thought it captured a timeless truth of engineering - that there are two kinds of project: beautiful clever designs that will solve all your problems (but that haven’t yet been built); and messy, expensive, late designs that are actually working. Related to the nirvana fallacy discussed here the other day, where user acidburnNSA mentioned it - I felt it deserved a discussion of its own: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36078781 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36078781