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Comment by Verdex

20 hours ago

My dad worked in the auto industry and they came across a defect in an engine control computer where they were able to give it something like 10 million to one odds of triggering.

They then turned the thing on, it ran for several seconds, encountered the error, and crashed.

Oh, that's right, the CPU can do millions of things a second.

Something I keep in the back of my mind when thinking about the odds in programming. You need to do extra leg work to make sure that you're measuring things in a way that's practical.