alt Hacker News> "fail open/closed" means that in failure mode something is open.
That sentence doesn’t logically parse. Failing open or closed is a concept with two outcomes, it doesn’t mean one or those two outcomes.
> "fail open/closed" means that in failure mode something is open.
That sentence doesn’t logically parse. Failing open or closed is a concept with two outcomes, it doesn’t mean one or those two outcomes.
I added "/closed" later and forgot to update the rest of the sentence. Too late to edit.