*> Nature might be advanced technology but wow it sure makes suboptimal choices ...

kibwen on April 6, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ballooning spiders rely on electric fields to gene...

> Nature might be advanced technology but wow it sure makes suboptimal choices and often.

When it comes to suboptimal choices based only on path dependence and institutional intertia, nature has nothing on humanity's computing infrastructure. :P

titzer on April 6, 2022 [–]

Nature knows how to kill unviable code.