alt Hacker NewsThis sort of boring grind is where the real work of systems engineering is done. Big infrastructure projects like this work on making the Linux kernel more reliable while still keeping it workable throughout the process move on the scale of decades, not months.
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mvdtnz • today at 5:51 AM
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On one hand I understand why it’s decade scale (the long tail of users/dependencies is really, really long) but on the other hand it doesn’t feel like a tenable pace at which we can make meaningful long term progress. Less of a gripe and I guess more a paradox of critical infrastructure.