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You don’t have to be a jerk about it
The Homer: Self-Report is Unreliable
I said “lunch”, not “launch”!
Freedom of choice
Of course the point of the Devo song is that we’re offered many trivial choices to distract us from the reality that the larger, more meaningful choices have already been made for us. That’s not what this post is about. Or maybe it is.
Graceful failure, or why water heaters are evil
We need to design graceful failure into our products.
A water heater’s only failure mode is to dump 50+ gallons of water into your home. Aside from setting your home on fire or asphyxiating your family with CO, this is the worst possible outcome of water heater usage.
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