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It doesn't make sense to me that there should be consensus. People have diverse opinions and values, and these topics are highly situational and subjective rath
by gdulli 3y ago
It doesn't make sense to me that there should be consensus. People have diverse opinions and values, and these topics are highly situational and subjective rather than neatly, objectively, universally right or wrong.
- swayvil 3y agoIf there is nigh-unanimous agreement. Asserting the same narrative, arguing the same arguments. Well that's suspicious. That's a sign of something.
- justin66 3y agoIn other engineering disciplines, it means there are agreed upon engineering principles that practitioners are obligated to apply.
- gdulli 3y agoGood example of why "engineering" only works as a loose metaphor and isn't meaningfully similar enough with software for direct comparisons. Building things with matter needs to adhere to fixed principles corresponding to hard laws of physics. Working with bits is a different ballgame. It's creativity, psychology, improvisation. It's gardening.
- justin66 3y agoPhysics matters, but any engineering discipline dictates principles and practices beyond merely what is demanded by physics. > It's gardening. Let a thousand bad analogies bloom!