Comment by bryanrasmussen
17 days ago
>If you don't make assumptions then when edge cases happen that have not been programmed for then the system will probably crash.
>and weird defaults in your system
I'm not sure that there is any sufficiently complex logical system that will never have weird defaults, perhaps caused by the logic of some other seemingly sensible default. Complexity being the root cause of this overarching phenomenon.
Yes, but you want as few of those as possible. And you don't want to stick to default assumptions from 35+ years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46185345