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Make failure immediately visible in a non-destructive way. A nuclear reactor that fails and explodes immediately is not a good thing. A nuclear reactor that fai
by skolor 17y ago
Make failure immediately visible in a non-destructive way. A nuclear reactor that fails and explodes immediately is not a good thing. A nuclear reactor that fails and notifies someone qualified to fix the problem immediately is a very good thing.
- randallsquared 17y agoWell, the details are application-specific, yeah. The metrorail problem could have been "solved" by making the system refuse to allow a train to travel on track that didn't have a currently working train sensor, but such failures are so common in the system that the whole Metro would grind to a halt, from my reading this summer about this problem (mostly while on the Metro, fittingly).