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Comment by inejge

10 hours ago

> What has always baffled me is how CS uses the word "safety" where all other industries use "robustness".

FWIW "safety factors" are an important part of all kinds of engineering. The term is overloaded and more elusive in CS because of the protean qualities of algorithmic constructs, but that's another discussion.

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