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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Crowdstrike fiasco
Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2024 19:46:32 +0100
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On 20/07/2024 19:42, rbowman wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Jul 2024 17:43:27 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
> 
>> That explains the definition of "Quality Control" that I once heard:
>> keeping quality under control so it doesn't rise too high and increase
>> costs.
> 
> Stated honestly a large part of my college statistics course involved
> determining how many widgets you need to test to insure only N% of the
> output is defective, where N is determined by the cost of repairing/
> replacing the defective widgets balanced against the QA costs.
> 
I remember the US Robotics 'lifetime guaranteed' modems
When mine got struck by lightning, they simply sent me a new one.
It was cheaper than repairing the old

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