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by P5fRxh5kUvp2th 1407 days ago
> sometimes even if the individual parts aren’t right, the whole can still work.

And in fact, fault tolerance with the assumption that all of it's parts are unreliable and will fail quickly makes for more fault tolerant systems.

The _processes and attitude_ that cause many individual parts to be incorrect will also cause the overall system to be crap. There's a definite correlation, but that correlation isn't about any specific part.