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Re:Finding a problem at the bottom of the Google stack by cameronbrown on Monday March 16, 2020 @05:39PM (#22598198)
> Sometimes they know better, but there is a failing to ask the question: “what does it cost to only act on symptoms not causes”

I imagine hardware breaking is the cost -- but as long as an engineer's time is worth more than the hardware, that tradeoff will be made.

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Re:Finding a problem at the bottom of the Google stack by tjoff on Monday March 16, 2020 @05:55PM (#22598413)
Debugging and replacing is far more time consuming and costly, both in hardware money and engineer money.
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