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As a rule of thumb, you can't design anything trying to account for black swan events. Optimizing for the regular, daily use case is hard enough. It would hel
by fooker 2y ago
As a rule of thumb, you can't design anything trying to account for black swan events.
Optimizing for the regular, daily use case is hard enough.
It would help to think of this as a smart but random person reading about a security issue like spectre and offering you software design advice. Common sense arguments are only useful to an extent, the devil is in the details.
- wat10000 2y agoI’m not sure how to apply this here. What does optimizing for regular daily use and not black swan events look like when it comes to fire and ambulance services? It seems to me that black swans are a major purpose for them. That’s why the local fire station tends to have a lot of time where the firefighters are sitting around, and why simple calls often get 3x more response than they need. The services are greatly overprovisioned for daily needs because they also exist for the times when an entire apartment building burns down, or some maniac bombs the subway.