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Re:Boeing fired midlevel executive following embarrassing em... by nate_meurer on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @03:20PM (#22312380)
> "good enough" is the gold standard in engineering.

This doesn't really make sense given any common meaning of good enough. A well engineered system or product is optimized. If you want to say that good enough means solving the inherent tradeoffs between safety margins and cost with careful design and precise specs, then you're not talking about the same thing as that blog post, nor would that accurately describe the way Boeing appears to design commercial aircraft nowadays.

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Re:Boeing fired midlevel executive following embarrassing em... by lutorm on Friday February 14, 2020 @05:50PM (#22331211)
Isn't the common meaning of "good enough" "sufficiently good to meet my requirements, even though I can imagine it being even better"?

But you're right, I'm clearly not talking about the same thing as that blog post. What I'm arguing is that there's this appropriation of language where people use "good enough" to mean exactly "not good enough", and I don't think that's helpful.

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Re:Boeing fired midlevel executive following embarrassing em... by TylerE on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @06:48PM (#22314036)
Development time and costs are major dimensions to be optimized.
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