[−]narnarpapadaddy · 2026-11-15 Sun 05:19 UTC ·
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It’s always entertaining to hear engineers ridicule inefficient government programs while simultaneously setting up a load balancer, backups, or a high-availability db cluster. Completely unable to generalize the lesson that redundancy and overhead aren’t necessarily bad, and that efficiency is in tension with other desirable attributes in every system, political, biological, computational, whatever.