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by archi42 2178 days ago
TIL: "The rat is always right."

//edit: okay, the above is a bit minialistic, so, in full: The article is a good point on how systems have to adapt to actual human (mis-)behaviour, instead of relying on wishful thinking on how humans should behave.

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A hundred years ago, tradespeople were often missing fingers. For some reason, it was really hard to sell the idea of safer equipment.

I bet it has something in common about hand washing in hospitals taking some hundred years to become mandatory - or how it was done much earlier in Hungary, yet nobody outside believed in it.