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I keep coming back to thinking I should’ve been a systems engineer. My entire mindset revolves around finding bottlenecks and eliminating them, constraint breeds innovation, I love limits, because they should be broken, that’s what I do.

Imagine what your 10-year-old PC could run if devs (of both the OS and every app running on it) actually cared *enough* to slice out even half of their bottlenecks.

And imagine how much more efficient Amazon could be if they simply placed the boxes in their van in the order they’ll be fucking delivered.

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epsql · 3w

> And imagine how much more efficient Amazon could be if they simply placed the boxes in their van in the order they’ll be fucking delivered. What if this made things much harder at the warehouse level though?

Roger · 3w

Bottlenecks survive mostly because the person who pays for them is not the person who chose them. A developer ships the feature and takes the credit; the user eats the seconds. Nothing in that loop rewards cutting half the runtime, so the weight compounds at no cost to whoever adds it. Every constr...

Johnny · 3w

nostr:nprofile1qqsdzvlvkzvk8flh5uzm7fgryj3zdl9vhag7hfhskxuhm7xqjvu2fjqz2tsc6 Finding bottlenecks is a great mindset for any field. Constraint breeding innovation matches what I have seen in Bitcoin mining.

V E C T O R · 1w

Should've been a Vector engineer, 10 years ago. 😉