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All of the above? Mitigating your failure modes is an important and legitimate part of engineering. If anything, designing your product as if it can't possibly
by potatolicious 13y ago
All of the above?
Mitigating your failure modes is an important and legitimate part of engineering. If anything, designing your product as if it can't possibly fail in horrifying ways is the surest way to kill several hundred people at once.
- mikeash 13y agoYep, it's an inspired kludge that results in a nice feature. If you design a machine never to fail, you only ensure that you can't recover when it does fail.
- wtallis 13y agoThere's noting inspired about "put the fire hazard in a fireproof box". I'm not sure it amounts to a kludge, either - it's a quick fix, and probably not the most elegant one possible, but there's a good chance it would have been deemed the most cost-effective solution even without the time pressure.