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1. jjg (jjg@social.coop)'s status on Saturday, 28-Jul-2018 17:03:16 EDT jjg

   “Designing systems on the assumption they’ll never fail doesn’t give you good systems, it gives you the Titanic. Smart engineers know entropy isn’t just a good idea, it’s the (second) law (of thermodynamics) and plan accordingly, designing systems that glide to a graceful halt when they go wrong – rather than exploding in a cloud of white-hot shrapnel.”

   https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2017/may/31/technology-is-making-the-world-more-unequal-only-technology-can-fix-this-cory-doctorow

   1. moved (riley@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 28-Jul-2018 21:08:01 EDT moved

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      @jjg What's funny is the Titanic was built pretty well to an extent, but the growing body of research suggests the failure was a gash that nope.gif'd right along all the sturdy bulkheads, rendering them useless.

      In the end, it was probably the arrogance of the person commanding it and the people who planned the trip, not the people who designed it.