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Nobody panics when things go "according to plan." (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

'Nobody panics when things go "according to plan."' -- as a software engineer, I assure you this isn't completely true. If things are too smooth, something is definitely, probably horribly and sneakily, wrong.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago

"Any problem that goes away by itself can come back by itself." - fellow programmer I knew

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

False positives make me lose sleep because I get oaged. False negatives make me lose sleep because of the dread.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

(When I carried a pager) I'd rather occasionally get paged at 3AM for nothing than not get a page when it actually was Something. But those were production systems for things that would make the news if they went down.