ironically, this comment is political. and so are you đ
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Engineering trust-minimized, distributed systems is guided by principles beyond mere social consensus/politics.
Just like how the properties of money arenât arbitrary (despite what fiat institutions say) â if you studied the history of money youâd see that principle applies to both in the same way here.
There is always a wild reaction whenever engineering discussions come up. âNostr warsâ. i donât think people realize this is how engineers naturally are.
Itâs the only thing that matters đ¤ˇââď¸
Anyone can build UX.
The cyber hornets are supposed to defend these principles, but they are dwindling⌠we have to do it else no one will.
Hopefully it will attract more of them. đ
if hornets are symbolic of principal conviction in this analogy,
sugar catches more hornets than fire. diplomacy has a more efficient outcome. it has always been thus. especially for a generation prone to conflict.
Burn the bridges to charlatans or be burned by their false principles. Iâve tried to be diplomatic in the past. Iâm done wasting my breath.
I said it 6 months ago⌠specifying the risk of their giant cache layer. Itâs clear what their philosophy is. Shortcuts are quick to ship, but ultimately fragile
âI should be able to go to your profile, open your list of relays, and tap on the new relays I want to connect to. The relays in the list Iâm already connected to can be present too, but with a different icon beside them, just like on Damus.
Preventing users from being able to discover the relays of people they follow is antithetical to nostrâs philosophy of data portability. We should make moving relays as easy as possible rather than relying on Primalâs giant cache layer.â
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cyber ostriches?
Haha now thatâs a brand đ
Cyber Ostriches Unite https://v.nostr.build/nSc4NtW8oeZA7vK6.mp4
Doesnât have the same ring..
very true. always thinking about how someone might feel, or interpret something takes all the brain power needed to solve the actual engineering problem.đ¤ˇ
With respect
Anyone who works with engineers at arms length knows this is exactly how they naturally are.
High precision high compulsion unwilling to budge a micrometer if doing so could lead to error or harm or embarrassment. In short high signal and noise intolerant. But sometimes stubborn for lack of a better word.
Then of course there are physicistsâŚ.
what's up with physicists?? đ¤
No disrespect meant. Two observations:
In my experience physicists interactions with one another can be easily mis interpreted by outsiders (and I am one).
Eg hyper aggressive attempts to root out errors can appear as mean infighting and egomania or toxicity.
And there is meanness and egomania present in physics of course, itâs just been my experience that outsiders looking in often just donât have the training / exposure / mathematical chops to discern which is which. To make a terrible analogy- if I am not actually on the team, and I was never actually in the game, then I am not in a position to judge the locker room talk afterwards.
I also find physicists get so sharpened by the empiriometric precision required by (and successful in) their field they can get frustrated when that tool does not work well in other areas. They sometimes default to assuming sloppiness in applying the tool rather than realizing it just does not work well everywhere. And if they cannot shake that assumption you get a physicist thinking âfind and root out the errorâ and a non physicist thinking âyou are totally using the wrong toolâ and they talk past one another- sometimes unpleasantly.