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the obsessive narrative against redundancy has been the blight of our times. people are copies of each other, they eat the same food, work the same job, have th
by ppqqrr 1y ago
the obsessive narrative against redundancy has been the blight of our times. people are copies of each other, they eat the same food, work the same job, have the same needs. if you follow the Big Wheel propaganda to its logical conclusion, you’ll have as your ideal a very specialized person who serves a very specific needs of some (probably) rich people, but knows or enjoys absolutely nothing else: never cooks, grows, loves anything, because those things are redundant.
- bigyabai 1y ago"Don't reinvent the wheel" doesn't necessarily imply you shouldn't question anything, or even that you always have to take the path of least resistance. If your car tire pops, you should consider all of your wheel options. You just shouldn't reinvent the wheel; they give you a spare for a reason, and anything you can design or manufacture is going to be worse than the one from the factory.
- whstl 1y agoThe problem is that I work at a wheel design factory and get paid for it, unlike the hobbyists who make 95% of the wheels on Github. I'm all for reusing frameworks, standard libraries, crypto. Sure, those are things we don't want to recklessly reinvent. But there's a limit. There should be way more pushback against things like this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39019001 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39019001