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reverendsteveii 5 days ago

If they were worth it you'd already have been buying them. With that being said, glad to hear a CEO say "we have to consider the resiliency of the supply chain" because JIT as a manufacturing philosophy is revealing itself to be what it always was: exceedingly fragile, barely adequate when everything is working perfectly and subject to massive, multiplicative disruptions when everything is not working perfectly.

elcritch 5 days ago | parent [-]

Funny, it's not that different to programming in Node or browsers. The JIT is awesome, but theres so many stories of fragile performance pits.

reverendsteveii 5 days ago | parent [-]

the concept is the same: do you do work in advance and bear the cost of storing it and maybe not using it, or do you do work as-needed and hope that the additional cost of trying to deliver immediately is less than the cost of storage and overrun? the answer seems to be the same, too, "depends on whether you have resources to spare and whether the environment is stable enough to count on immediate delivery"