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Perhaps it’s that a global solution in the language of set theory was hard to find, but distributed systems — which need to provide guarantees only from local n
by jsrozner 11mo ago
Perhaps it’s that a global solution in the language of set theory was hard to find, but distributed systems — which need to provide guarantees only from local node behavior, without access to global — offered an alternate perspective. They weren’t designed to do so but they ended up being useful.
- Ar-Curunir 11mo ago> They weren’t designed to do so but they ended up being useful. an object doing something that it wasn’t designed for seems to me to be the definition of “surprising”