This is a good point, and I would add to it that the internet as a system is robust *because* the protocols are ancient and crufty and not too reliable. Ancient is antifragile! Real systemic risk lurks in the cloud—a complex system of cruft that is designed to never, ever fail.https://twitter.com/rahaeli/status/1445267690466185216 …
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People saying the internet is a hairball held together with bubble gum and duct tape are paying it a huge compliment. Here and there inside the hairball is a delicately engineered Swiss watch, and those are the parts we need to get rid of.
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Anyway this is all just the tech port of a standard-issue
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If you've seen a video of the Milk Crate Challenge, then you understand how the layered architecture of modern hardware, software, and the internet all works.
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But try selling "our unreliable system forces you to have good engineering practices!"
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Will be “fun” when the GPS network hits its first major snag.
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