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NASA likes to pull the old mechanic’s trick of underpromising and over delivering.
by yeetaccount4 5y ago
NASA likes to pull the old mechanic’s trick of underpromising and over delivering.
- bryanlarsen 5y agoThat's just a natural consequence of designing with safety margins. In other words, it should be the norm and not the exception. But of course the vast majority of us work in fields where overpromising is the norm.
- vikingerik 5y agoAnd think about how many layers of safety margins. If there are ten subsystems each with a 20% safety margin to say that their designers did their jobs right, then you might have an overall system with as much as 200% safety margin. (yeah not everything is linear like that, but illustrating the point.)
- beckingz 5y agoIt's career ending to not do that.
- Salgat 5y agoIt's so consistently done by NASA that I'm no longer impressed when they reach past EOL. It just shows that they were covering their asses.