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by themodelplumber 1366 days ago
> What do you mean by ‘well implemented contingency thinking’?

"I knew people wanted to do A. But I thought it'd also be helpful if when you did A, a feature like B could be there to prevent really common mistakes. And in this other set of features over here, if an annoying thing like C ever happened, well, I put in stop-gaps D and E so it was much less of a problem."