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> Test and measure. If you can't measure the difference, it doesn't matter. If you don't measure the difference, the rule you are following probably isn't helpi
by gry 12y ago
> Test and measure. If you can't measure the difference, it doesn't matter. If you don't measure the difference, the rule you are following probably isn't helping you.
/Yes/.
- sgustard 12y agoThat's a sad state of affairs for our industry, though. It's like every structural engineer being told to measure which is stronger, iron or steel. How about some basic shared knowledge we can all trust and build on?
- ChuckMcM 12y agoThere may yet come a day when all steel is sold by weight, manufactured in unnamed factories at unknown chemical compositions such that the only way to know if a piece of steel you have will carry the weight being asked of it, is to use a sample of it in a test fixture. Unfortunately that day is already today on the Internet, where browsers have unknown design decisions made of unknown reasoning across networks that were optimized for unknown requirements.
- iopq 12y agoIt's more like what's cheaper, diesel or gasoline? Well, it depends on your mileage and the prices...
- forgottenpass 12y agoHow about some basic shared knowledge we can all trust and build on? We have decades of it, it's so trusted that you're forgetting it even exists. What we don't have are convenient answers for questions at the edge of predictability involving dozens of constantly-moving variables.
- debacle 12y agoYou can get italics using *.