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[–] frog@feddit.uk 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I have never owned a German car. I find the idea that something is over engineered and unreliable together funny.

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

Over-engineering is dedicating a team of specialists to shaving off every last piece of material from a pneumatic hose, justified with endless computer simulations based on unrealistic assumptions like constant temperature throughout the year, then wondering why the hoses fail in less than a year in the real world. "But the simulation". "But the data". "But the theory". "The real world is a statistical fluke". That's over-engineering.

[–] UnpledgedCatnapTipper@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

To sum it up in a meme, over engineered vs simple and reliable

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