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Efficiency is not resilient. Supply chains were efficient before Covid and look what happened. Efficiency is a non-goal for government. I’m surprised that DOGE
by fire_lake 2y ago
Efficiency is not resilient. Supply chains were efficient before Covid and look what happened. Efficiency is a non-goal for government. I’m surprised that DOGE engineers (who presumably have deployed a load balancer or two) don’t understand this.
- sgarland 2y ago> I’m surprised that DOGE engineers (who presumably have deployed a load balancer or two) don’t understand this. You're surprised that the same geniuses who launched a site with an obvious exploit don't understand something about infrastructure? I'm more surprised that they haven't done something like rewriting a critical system in JS (with AI, obviously).
- atq2119 2y agoYou're overestimating the average competence of engineers. Besides, this is one of those situations where ideology easily trumps reason.
- delecti 2y agoThe DOGE engineers are Musk sycophants, and Musk is tearing apart the government so he and other oligarchs can profit off the unmet needs. https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/27/business/elon-musk-faa-air-traffic-control-failing-spacex/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/27/business/elon-musk-faa-air-tr...