Falcon Darkstar@lauren @dalias I hazard it is in part a pack of demand because incompetent managers are rarely held to account for incurring risk. It has been only 20-30 years since we designed and engineered these systems for high reliability in at least some contexts, and we still remember how to pull cable and use terrestrial radios. We can get it back if we want to.
Folks in tech are way too easily swayed by trends and "inevitability" right now, also due to bad incentives.
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