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		MattGaiser on Sept 17, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Did Software Get So Reliable Without Proof? (1... It is also replacing humans most of the time as well, who are prone to making all sorts of errors. Worse, humans can make the same error twice even after being corrected.

7thaccount on Sept 17, 2020 [–]

Software can also make the same mistake, thousands of times per second or more :)

king_panic on Sept 18, 2020 | | [–]

"same" is the operative word. Easier to correct the same mistake every time than a different mistake on unpredictable executions.

jeffasinger on Sept 17, 2020 | | [–]

Those types of errors are usually pretty easy for humans to find and fix.

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