Lemons(?) of Lemmy, what is something that feels so obvious to you that you just get lowkey pissed at the world for not knowing? - eviltoast
  • intensely_human@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    To quote a theorem from one of my engineering courses:

    An optimized system can consist only of optimized subsystems.

    This means any time you’re preparing to make something small worse, for the global good, it’s a mathematical fact you’re about to do the wrong thing.