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by toss1 1537 days ago
Chesterton's Fence [0] should overrule fear of cargo culting, especially when the fence (or in this case color) was clearly put up by people who really knew what they were doing at the time.

Unless there is a significant cost to it, and unless the benefit is understood, there is no reason that they should be faulted as ignorant cargo cultists simply for keeping it in place.

[0] https://www.chesterton.org/taking-a-fence-down/

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Right. There's not a compelling reason to switch and there's more than a hint of CYA mixed in with Chesterton's Fence:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-09/how-intel...

> For decades, Intel’s cleanrooms have been lit like darkrooms, bathed in a deep, low yellow. “That’s an anachronism,” says Mark Bohr, a small, serious man who has spent his entire 38-year career making chips, and who’s now Intel’s top manufacturing scientist. “Nobody’s had the courage to change it.”