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Some mistakes can only be learned by making them. Sometimes you can tell someone a hundred times something, they won't learn until they experience it.

The point is not to prevent these mistakes, but to keep the consequences low.

Have backups, have version control, etc.




True, and worth remembering why. Most of us are constantly getting warned about the dire potential consequences of huge numbers of things, most of which are either massively unlikely to ever happen or not actually that bad, or both. It's very difficult to tell which of the things we get warned about are actually high risk until something bites us.




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