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[–] FiskFisk33@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

[–] Kerrangutan@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago

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[–] LeylaaLovee@lemmy.fmhy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

I tell my friends that making software is like making M16s. You send them out of the factory, thinking you've designed the perfect gun, I mean how the hell do you use a gun wrong? Until you find out that a few people tried to use that top part to shoot arrows like a bow. What's even worse about software is sometimes they actually figure out how to use it as a bow and idiots start using M16s as bows and now you have to fix that because it's a horrible fucking bow.