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Re:Simple Systems Have Less Downtime by jrochkind1 on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @08:30AM (#22474253)
Do you mean inherent vs accidental?

I think "incidental" (non-essential, secondary, happenstance), and "accidental" (non-intentional, happenstance) are more or less synonyms here, not contrasts. I think there, uh, is basically no significant difference between "incidental complexity" and "accidental complexity".

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Re:Simple Systems Have Less Downtime by 0xdeadbeefbabe on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @12:01PM (#22476306)
Fred Brooks could have identified a third problem: accidental complexity is fun; inherent complexity is boring.
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