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> "fail open/closed" means that in failure mode something is open.

That sentence doesn’t logically parse. Failing open or closed is a concept with two outcomes, it doesn’t mean one or those two outcomes.



I added "/closed" later and forgot to update the rest of the sentence. Too late to edit.




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