Re:What is negative engineering?
by helmholtz on Monday December 12, 2022 @07:13AM
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You insure _against_ something. You ensure something. GP is right.
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If you're talking about the grammar, then the phrase "My car is insured" is fine. You aren't required to specify what it's insured against; that can be left implicit.
If you're talking about the language, insurance is wrong: retries do ensure positive outcomes. However, assurance is wrong as well: unlike retries, observability tools don't ensure positive outcomes, they just mitigate the negative ones.
It's just bad writing, using a tortured metaphor to explain a definition that doesn't make any sense.