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Wind stress? Don't be silly. When has wind stress ever been a problem for a suspension bridge?

🔗 xkcd.com/3279 · #3279

Why it resonates: The same breezy dismissal of known failure modes lives in every codebase where someone once said "that edge case will never actually happen in production."

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