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Comment by whimsicalism

24 days ago

certainly a narrative that is popular among the grey beard crowd, yes. in pretty much every field i've worked on, the opposite problem has been much much more common.

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johncolanduoni  24 days ago

What fields? Cargo culting is annoying and definitely leads to suboptimal solutions and sometimes total misses, but I’ve rarely found that simply reading literature on a thorny topic prevents you from thinking outside the box. Most people I’ve seen work who were actually innovating (as in novel solutions and/or execution) understood the current SOTA of what they were working on inside and out.

  • ownagefool  24 days ago

    I suspect they were more referring to curmudgeons not patching.

    I was engaged after one of the worlds biggest data leaks. The Security org was hyper worried about the cloud environment, which was in its infancy, despite the fact their data leak was from on-prem mainframe style system and they hadn't really improved their posture in any significant way despite spending £40m.

    As an aside, I use NATs for some workloads where I've obviously spent low effort validating whether it's a great idea, and I'm pretty horrified with the report. (=

_zoltan_  24 days ago

what's the opposite problem statement?

  • whimsicalism  24 days ago

    People overly beholden to tried and true 'known' way of addressing a problem space and not considering/belittling alternatives. Many of the things that have been most aggressively 'bitter lesson'ed in the last decade fall into this category.

    • awesome_dude  24 days ago

      Like this bug report?

      The things that have been "disrupted" haven't delivered - Blockchains are still a scam, Food delivery services are worse than before (Restaurants are worse off, the people making the deliveries are worse off), Taxis still needed to go back and vet drivers to ensure that they weren't fiends.

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