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Wayland

"The article explains why this is a bad idea"

James Burke's Connections explained a failover system of the electrical grid in America. One relay tripped because a street was overloaded and it passed the current over to other circuits in a domino effect until the whole state was offline.

If the load is too much for one then it will be too much when added to the next one that's still working.

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