[HN Gopher] Fail-Fast Is Failing Fast
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       Fail-Fast Is Failing Fast
        
       Author : tmfi
       Score  : 22 points
       Date   : 2021-03-27 10:00 UTC (13 hours ago)
        
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       | gumby wrote:
       | This happens on the desktop too. Used to be people (or IT) bought
       | the wrong spec for RAM or disk drive (or CPU vs motherboard).
       | Aggressive backwards compatibility meant the thing still booted.
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       | Now most of the computers are preassembeld and never changed, but
       | the external devices' back compatibility causes this kind of
       | invisible slowdown. Your nice fast disk is connected with a usb 2
       | cable by mistake. A class of mistake even easier to make with the
       | transition to Type C connectors.
       | 
       | Yet if back compatibility were not conserved things would be
       | worse.
        
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