"the perfect is the enemy of the good" keeps being a phrase meaning shut up and accept the bad

[jripley@mastodon.social]

@davidgerard The replies in that thread, and its spinoff threads, are like someone is crowdsourcing “Give examples of bad faith calls-to-inaction”

[Edit: More generally, it’s like the “But you live in society” guy popping out in everyone’s mentions]

[theonedoc@tech.lgbt]

@davidgerard good enough is when a 20 bucks bottle of wine gets you 95% to where that 110 bucks bottle gets you.

With technology especially code 90% solutions aren't good enough.

[davidgerard@circumstances.run]

@jripley i had about ten threads in mind and mostly on bluesky lol

[decay@gts.todayiwilllaunchmyinfantsonintoorbit.com]

@davidgerard "Don't let the good be the enemy of the literally the second worst possible situation"

[pkraus@berlin.social]

@davidgerard well, I'm not a mind reader (or have blue sky or whatnot to see what you refer to), but no, I can imagine plenty of cases where you're technically right on this one.

It's just that I really like the phrase and find it useful to get things "out of committee" so to speak. You should come and join a #FAIRdata @NFDI conference some time to find how traumatizing endless looking for perfection perfected to a T can be

[sharpcheddargoblin@reclusive.blog]

@davidgerard It also implies that someone is looking for perfection, framing them as entirely unreasonable. I'm not looking for perfection. I'd settle for a lot of things that weren't overrun by fucking fascists. But no, some asshole has to try and shut down the conversation before we even get to addressing that.

[theorangetheme@en.osm.town]

@davidgerard My response is usually "but this isn't even good".

[arcadiagt5@mstdn.social]

@davidgerard Which is an unfortunate perversion of how it SHOULD be used, but alas only to be expected in the tech bro slop era…

[tobinbaker@discuss.systems]

@davidgerard ditto "Chesterton's fence", thought-terminating cliche

[davidgerard@circumstances.run]

@tobinbaker "perhaps it's *load bearing* obvious fuckery, did you think of *that* huh"

[zygmyd@toot.cat]

@davidgerard @tobinbaker

This is Sunday evening, stop making me think about work.

[krans@mastodon.me.uk]

@tobinbaker In what way is Chesterton's Fence “thought-terminating”? @davidgerard

[jannem@fosstodon.org]

@pkraus @davidgerard @NFDI
Exactly. It doesn't have to be perfect. It does have to be done.