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by enraged_camel 4485 days ago
>>You're presenting the MySQL argument. "Why should we switch since we know it fails in exactly these 1,000 different ways and we can fix these problems? Using something better has unknown failure scenarios!"

The point is that you cannot know that something is better if it has unknown failure scenarios.

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Example: you have a car you know breaks down exactly after 200 every miles. You have a newer car you haven't seen fail yet, but like all mechanical things, you know it'll fail one day. Do you go with the old one because you know how it fails?