On 2026-Oct-15, shihao zhong wrote: > Someone told me a story today. If you build a payroll app and it > breaks one time in x, would you ship it? That one time is someone > who does not get paid. A rare bug is still a real bug for whoever > hits it.
Some definitely would. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal The court cases, criminal convictions, imprisonments, loss of livelihoods and homes, debts, and bankruptcies led to stress, illness and family breakdowns, and were linked to at least thirteen suicides. In 2024, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak described the scandal as one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in British history. -- Álvaro Herrera PostgreSQL Developer — https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/ "Sallah, I said NO camels! That's FIVE camels; can't you count?" (Indiana Jones)
