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Re:SpaceX Crew Demo-1 Mission [video] by the8472 on Saturday March 02, 2019 @12:58PM (#19290229)
It's a matter of tradeoffs. If your webapp is unusable 2 days a year people will just do something else in the meantime. If your flight control software fails for two days a year planes might come crashing down. The former is tolerable even if unpleasant from a customer perspective, thus they don't pay for flight control levels of reliability.

And it's not like this is unique to software. It's the difference between a disposable plastic fork and surgical instruments.

Re:SpaceX Crew Demo-1 Mission [video] by Gravityloss on Saturday March 02, 2019 @04:07PM (#19291168)
Yes, I agree. I was wildly exaggerating.

Life sustaining equipment is regulated and has a lot of resources spent on it to make it reliable. And toy software doesn't matter if it falls down.

I guess medium level services fall in between. Still causing inconvenience and monetary losses when they fail.