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Re:Full power outage in Spain and Portugal by Marsymars on Monday April 28, 2025 @06:00PM (#43826592)
> Systems like electric grid, internal water management (anti-flood) shouldn't be lean, they should be antifragile.

How do you make those systems antifragile rather than simply highly resilient?

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Re:Full power outage in Spain and Portugal by shermantanktop on Monday April 28, 2025 @07:02PM (#43827040)
Step 1: read a book by nnt
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Re:Full power outage in Spain and Portugal by Marsymars on Tuesday April 29, 2025 @12:51AM (#43828771)
Yeah, I have, that’s why I’m asking the question.
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Re:Full power outage in Spain and Portugal by baq on Tuesday April 29, 2025 @02:47AM (#43829362)
Things which can’t self improve can’t be antifragile by definition. NNT alludes to this multiple times - systems together with processes and people running them can be antifragile, but just things cannot.

I postulate the grid as a whole is antifragile, but not enough for the renewable era. We still don’t know what was the root cause of the Spanish blackout almost 24h after it happened.

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