[hinkley]

I have known so many engineers that rely on wishful thinking, it gets pretty frustrating after a while. If they do it with bugs they'll do it with resource planning.

Another place where they do this is oversubscribing a server, by putting 4 services that need 20-30% of the system memory or network to run, and don't understand why throughput drops off by 90% when the system becomes saturated and starts swapping or dropping packets.