Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by lxgr 204 days ago
Knowing your system components’ various error rates and compensating for them has always been the job. This includes both the software itself and the engineers working on it.

The only difference is that there is now a new high-throughput, high-error (at least for now) component editing the software.

1 comments

what is (and I'm being generous with the base here) 0.95^10? A 10-step process with a 95% success rate on each.