That joke takes me back. Had to double check if I was on slashdot.

It’s kind of like hiring a bunch of physicists to design a bridge. It’ll probably be a great bridge, but also probably overly complex, expensive and late. And for some reason made out of a novel alloy.

That show had so much promise. I wish it would have survived.

What happened to estimating the pessimistic, most likely and optimistic times and apply that to a beta distribution? That’s how I was taught back in the dark ages.

When I first read your title, I thought it was “how hard disk drives work” like “Do you know how hard your mom works for you?” And I thought “well yeah, I guess they do work hard, and we kind of take it for granted”. Then I realized I’m an idiot.