2026-10-01 23:17 UTC
It is worth noting that the same metric is the exact reason that web browser version numbers are so ridiculous.
What's that saying? Something about the moment a metric is used to measure performance, it ceases to be a good metric.
That's what's happening here. In one of the stupidest ways possible.
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@clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 2026-10-01 23:32
Here’s an episode of the excellent “99 percent Invisible” design podcast that interviews a philosopher who ho has written about this topic! 99percentinvisible.org/episode/673-the-score/
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@boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2026-10-02 03:10
Oh yeah, Firefox used to take years to change major version number, then they changed to… what was it now, a 6 week schedule? To keep up with Chrome’s versions.