Never trust a system that seems to be working

Post by bombcar » Mon, Oct 17, 2022, 4:47 PM UTC

acdha wrote: post #100

hedora wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is also why white traffic lights no longer mean "go". White means "the red glass lens in front of the incandescent bulb shattered again". Related, from train signals: > The invention of the track circuit in 1872 by William Robinson permitted automatic block signals. Most simply, a low voltage battery current runs up one rail and down the other. As long as current flows from the battery through one rail to the rela…

Train air brakes are similar in failing safely for the same written-in-blood reasons: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_air_brake

Post by Tao3300 » Mon, Oct 17, 2022, 4:49 PM UTC

carry_bit wrote: post #8

Full thread unroll: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1581643197427523584.html

Post by grimmn » Mon, Oct 17, 2022, 4:50 PM UTC

alephaleph wrote: post #18

stavros wrote: post #11

Hmm, what does he mean "I woke up the next day"? Did he leave Factorio running, or did it get an online component while I wasn't looking?

*they, this is why they hate their tweets being posted here

Post by Sebb767 » Mon, Oct 17, 2022, 4:52 PM UTC

0xbadcafebee wrote: post #36

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Post by dudeinjapan » Mon, Oct 17, 2022, 4:54 PM UTC

ben_w wrote: post #96

Reminds me of Jurassic Park (book, I think?); nobody realised that dinosaurs were loose and breeding, because the system was doing: if dinosaurs and nobody anticipated dinosaurs > expected