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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:24am on 2022-05-24

"a lot of engineering by prudent engineers consists of overdesigning things so when the accountants insist on making cuts to the design it will still be safe" -- Lindsay ([twitter.com profile] LLBroadwell), 2022-05-22

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posted by [personal profile] nancylebov at 01:00pm on 2022-05-24
There's a book called _To Engineer Is Human_ about a cycle of people designing things to be extremely strong, and then the designed are pruned back to be closer to what's needed. Then a disaster happens because things were too close to the edge, and the cycle repeats.
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