Grant Taylor via NANOG <nanog@nanog.org> writes: > On 9/6/21 5:04 AM, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen via NANOG wrote: >> Well, I come from a software background, so in my world the whole >> thing is held together by duct tape and string anyway ;) > > Don't forget bailing wire.
Heh, true, although I think the baling wire-to-string ratio tends to be a bit higher in the US than over here in Europe :) >> And while I can agree in principle, the nice thing about hacks is that >> you can actually get those to *work*, whereas tilting at windmills to >> get providers to do the right thing is much harder. So ideally you >> could do both: deploy the hack(s) while waiting to get the proper >> fix deployed a decade or two from now... > > Yes, it's usually possible to get one or more hacks to work well enough > to achieve the desired immediate goal -- $NextStreamingService to work > on $SignificantOthersDevice. > > But, how much time and effort ins required for each > $NextStreamingService that comes down the pipe and the associated > ill-will of $SignificantOther? > >> Yeah, I do realise that that particular workaround probably has (had?) >> an expiry date :( > > When is the proper time to give up on hacks and take one, relatively > simple, step backwards to avoid all subsequent time / effort / > ill-will? Well, this is more a question for the philosophy department I'd say... :) -Toke
