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A comment on The Infinite Loop That Wasn't (2020).

Re:The Infinite Loop That Wasn't (2020) by mijoharas on Friday February 04, 2022 @11:12AM (#30208669)
Hyrum's law[0] seems appropriate here:

  With a sufficient number of users of an API,
  it does not matter what you promise in the contract:
  all observable behaviors of your system
  will be depended on by somebody.
Except the API here is the behaviour of the hardware.

[0] https://www.hyrumslaw.com/

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Re:The Infinite Loop That Wasn't (2020) by throwamon on Friday February 04, 2022 @07:55PM (#30215817)
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1172/

Googling the xkcd also led me to this: https://github.com/dwmkerr/hacker-laws/

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