Never trust a system that seems to be working
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Re: Never trust a system that seems to be working
#2Same goes for work. If you join a well oiled machine that just seems to be working great, you may never understand how it works, since you won't be exposed to various people diagnosing issues. Join a place that used to work and is now creaking, or a place that never worked, and there's more pain but also more learning.
Also when does a Factorio system ever work? There's permanently a pressure for it to do more, stuff stuck on the wrong belts, not enough of some input...
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#3What does it have to do with Factorio?
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#4What does it have to do with Factorio?
You mean apart from the Factorio screenshots and the Factorio gameplay specifics?
The thread's start is here, btw: https://mobile.twitter.com/Foone/status/1581643197427523584
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#5Oh cool, a random tweet from the middle of a twitter rant.
Unleash the chaos monkey's just in case, not to get too confident.
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#6What does it have to do with Factorio?
The linked tweet is part of a larger thread which details an issue with how they set up transmitters in factorio which led to the destruction of the entire base. The thread then pivots to how it applies to other areas.
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#7What does it have to do with Factorio?
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#8Full thread unroll: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1581643197427523584.html
Re: Never trust a system that seems to be working
#9Same goes for work. If you join a well oiled machine that just seems to be working great, you may never understand how it works, since you won't be exposed to various people diagnosing issues. Join a place that used to work and is now creaking, or a place that never worked, and there's more pain but also more learning. Also when does a Factorio system ever work? There's permanently a pressure for it to do more, stuff…
> Also when does a Factorio system ever work? There's permanently a pressure for it to do more, stuff stuck on the wrong belts, not enough of some input...
Sounds like a growing SaaS company.
Re: Never trust a system that seems to be working
#10One reply tweet notes "a complex system always operates in a failure state", but to find more discussion on this point it's worth noting that this is a restatement of:
> "The Fundamental Failure-Mode Theorem (F.F.T.): complex systems usually operate in a failure mode."
-- John Gall, General Systemantics (aka Systemantics, aka The Systems Bible), 1977 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemantics >
Searching for "fundamental failure mode theorem" will provide interesting further insights on this.