@chrisjrn @webology @offby1 @hynek @coderanger re: how do you come back from that… I actually worry less about this. It is an immediate, obvious problem that can be solved pretty straightforwardly, and any corporate sponsor stepping into the gap to cover those bandwidth costs can expect an immediate and significant PR benefit. Picking up long-term engineer salary obligations for a tool that mostly kinda works right now is a much harder sell on every level
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In a vacuum, your argument makes sense. I think you've seen enough second order effects of things the PSF has done to know that there would be significant second order effects to deal with under time pressure.
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@chrisjrn @webology @offby1 @hynek @coderanger I stand by the fundamentals of my analysis but I somewhat intentionally glossed over the 7 or so people who would sustain permanent life-altering psychological trauma and probably exit the industry after this and the thousands who would be engulfed in all-consuming Internet Drama for weeks or months, leading to hundreds of millions of dollars of lost productivity across the industry