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Maybe it depends on what you'd call a "bug". Even a flip-flop always has a nonzero probability of failure via metastability, but I wouldn't classify every syste
by mehrdadn 8y ago
Maybe it depends on what you'd call a "bug". Even a flip-flop always has a nonzero probability of failure via metastability, but I wouldn't classify every system that uses a flip-flop as "buggy". Though to be honest now I'm not really sure what a consistent and useful definition of a "bug" is, if it's even clear and noncircular. (Maybe the best definition is "has a failure mode unaccepted by the users"? Not sure.)
- Senderman 8y agoThe state of "Bug" vs. "not a bug" is similarly non-binary. "unaccepted by users" is circular in this particular discussion, because it started with trying to tease out whether a rare* safety* risk was "acceptable." * All these debatable words tell me GuB-42's comment is taking the right approach.
- mehrdadn 8y agoYeah, I think you're probably right.