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by dnautics
2605 days ago
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> My takeaway from the last 30 years in computer science is that errors are not exceptional. They occur often and should be accounted for near the code that generates the errors... We should make it possible for functions to declare everything that goes wrong so that recovery can be more easily tested. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/04/why-accide... > Accidents happen. What he meant is that they must happen. Worse, according to Perrow, a humbling cautionary tale lurks in complicated systems: Our very attempts to stave off disaster by introducing safety systems ultimately increase the overall complexity of the systems, ensuring that some unpredictable outcome will rear its ugly head no matter what. |
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