Post #2506737

2025-11-30 14:52 UTC

@yosh@toot.yosh.is @Schneems@ruby.social Rather than redundancy (“the state of being not or no longer needed or useful”) I prefer to think about the imperative of ensuring systems are resilient. And whether the topic is Swiss trains, Texan electrical grids or Canadian health care excess capacity provides resilience.

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@hewer_of_code@mstdn.ca 2025-11-30 15:00

@DavidM_yeg@mstdn.ca @yosh@toot.yosh.is @Schneems@ruby.social There was a thing from someone I follow on Mastodon about efficient systems vs effective systems. Same kind of idea. Not sure if I"ll be able to find it back. It struck a chord with me, particularly with regards to the Canadian health care system.

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@SallyStrange@eldritch.cafe 2025-12-01 01:09

@DavidM_yeg@mstdn.ca @yosh@toot.yosh.is @Schneems@ruby.social oops I said the same thing after you :)

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@jens@social.finkhaeuser.de 2025-12-01 07:18

@DavidM_yeg@mstdn.ca @yosh@toot.yosh.is @Schneems@ruby.social I prefer the terms "failover" and "emergency capacity" and so forth over "redundancy", but I'm still training myself to avoid that word.

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@bnlandor@mastodon.social 2025-12-07 21:55

@DavidM_yeg@mstdn.ca @yosh@toot.yosh.is @Schneems@ruby.social https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/redundant "3 : serving as a duplicate for preventing failure of an entire system (such as a spacecraft) upon failure of a single component" applies here, and that definition shows nicely how it's mutually exclusive with "efficient"

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