• Ethanol@pawb.social
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      Uhm actually, that is Cunningham’s law after Howard Cunningham, developer of the first wiki!

      Murphy’s law states that “Anything that can go wrong will go wrong” smhmh.

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        Um actually you’re wrong, what you’re referencing is Poe’s law,
        Cunninghams law is “whoever smelt it, dealt it”

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          I thought Cunningham’s law had to do with over-intelligent pigs

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            Nah, over-intelligent pigs is covered in “Animal Farm”, a classic dystopian novel by George OrwellAldous Huxley shit sorry I accidentally misremembered it right.

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                No you’re thinking of Rubik Kube’s for which he invented the the Hoover Dam

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        That’s true now, but Murphy actually said “if there’s two ways of doing something people will do it wrong every time”

        What can go wrong will go wrong was Finagle’s law until Murphy came along with a better name for a similar rule

        But Murphy’s rule was better before as it gave a solution: ensure there’s only one way to do a thing

        Murphy was a test subject for acceleration tests on rocket sleds. One run was ruined as all the accelerometers had been plugged in the wrong way, so no acceleration data was collected