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bojan • today at 6:08 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Late Douglas Adams noticed this phenomenon decades ago:

> The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.


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joe_the_user • today at 6:18 PM

There's that, but even he didn't note "now, soon nearly everything is going to be in that category of things that can't possibly go wrong"