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Discussion on: Safety-Critical Software: 15 things every developer should know

 
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Blaine Osepchuk

Isn't what you are saying effectively amount to non-determinism? If your safety-critical product crashes dangerously once every million hours of operation on average for reasons you can't explain or reproduce, no matter how hard you try, isn't it hard to say that it's a systemic error for all practical purposes?

This really isn't my area of expertise by the way. Chris Hobbs explains what he means in this YouTube talk.