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Comment by Retric

Managing complexity is important even if it results in suboptimal solutions.

Imagine if when building a house you needed to shape every single brick for it’s actual load. Sure you end up using less materials, but you lost economies of scale and suddenly need vast quantities of computing power for minimal gain.

Using uniform bricks and banning stuff may seem wasteful, but it enables efficiency elsewhere.

parent Retric 4 years ago

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