> Overall, it's the general discussion about correctness VS "good enough". I consider that the extra complexity in a lib is warranted if it means less edge cases.
Yeah I just tend to have a very expansive view of this notion. I live by "all models are wrong, but some are useful." A Jiff timestamp is _wrong_. Dead wrong. And it's a total lie. Because it is _not_ a precise instant in time. It is actually a reference to a _range_ of time covered by 1,000 picoseconds. So when someone tells me, "but it's not correct,"[1] this doesn't actually have a compelling effect on me. Because from where I'm standing, everything is incorrect. Most of the time, it's not about a binary correct-or-incorrect, but a tolerance of thresholds. And that is a much more nuanced thing!
[1]: I try hard not to be a pedant. Context is everything and sometimes it's very clear what message is being communicated. But in this context, the actual ramifications of incorrectness really matters here, because it gets to the heart of whether they should be supported or not.
Yeah I just tend to have a very expansive view of this notion. I live by "all models are wrong, but some are useful." A Jiff timestamp is _wrong_. Dead wrong. And it's a total lie. Because it is _not_ a precise instant in time. It is actually a reference to a _range_ of time covered by 1,000 picoseconds. So when someone tells me, "but it's not correct,"[1] this doesn't actually have a compelling effect on me. Because from where I'm standing, everything is incorrect. Most of the time, it's not about a binary correct-or-incorrect, but a tolerance of thresholds. And that is a much more nuanced thing!
[1]: I try hard not to be a pedant. Context is everything and sometimes it's very clear what message is being communicated. But in this context, the actual ramifications of incorrectness really matters here, because it gets to the heart of whether they should be supported or not.