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When solving problems at scale with a 0.0000001% error rate ends up destroying someone’s life.
by DevKoala 5y ago
When solving problems at scale with a 0.0000001% error rate ends up destroying someone’s life.
- H8crilA 5y agoThe error rate is way, way higher than that. But yes, still low, and that's what almost certainly happened here.
- DevKoala 5y agoI was just throwing a number. I don’t work at Google, but I have heard from friends who work at that scale that when bugs only affect a few thousand people, it is “safe” to ship.
- eitland 5y agoThe error rate is so high that I see errors on a weekly or even daily basis when I fall back to Google and I only do 2 - 40 searches a day on Google these days. I'm not searching a lot of Bulgarian names but I do search for npm packages and the like and despite my best efforts they frequently show me something completely different than what I searched for. The saddest thing however is that DDG is just as bad, I use it just because I don't like Google and because it is easier to get from DDG to Google than the other way around.