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A comment on The Bureaucratic Failure Mode Pattern (2014).

Re:The Bureaucratic Failure Mode Pattern (2014) by 8note on Thursday July 29, 2021 @04:21PM (#28001000)
checkpoints are regression tests against past failures. Without them, somebody else is handling those failures
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Re:The Bureaucratic Failure Mode Pattern (2014) by TheOtherHobbes on Thursday July 29, 2021 @04:50PM (#28001331)
Fossilised procedures are tests against failures which either happened a long time ago or which someone decided might happen.

Neither may apply today.

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Re:The Bureaucratic Failure Mode Pattern (2014) by Werewolf255 on Friday July 30, 2021 @07:04AM (#28006673)
'Neither may apply today' is quite the phrase. I mean asbestos used to cause mesothelioma and be highly regulated, but neither may apply today.
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Re:The Bureaucratic Failure Mode Pattern (2014) by SideburnsOfDoom on Friday July 30, 2021 @08:42AM (#28007320)
I'm pretty sure that asbestos still causes mesothelioma and that's unlikely to change. And where I am, it is still quite regulated, as we had a property inspected for it, because it is still found in older buildings.
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