Ah yes, the Gell-Mann amnesia effect in a different medium.

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Pieter Hintjens alluded to this pattern in his Cheap and Nasty protocol design article: you want either something easy and simple, or brutally tuned for sheer throughput. Trying to mix them or going straight to Nasty without a good reason is a recipe for pain.

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