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0 pointsrobocat6y ago0 comments

> In their defense, the software industry is a complete joke in terms of quality control.

My dishwasher stopped working today. Last week I had to replace a wheel bearing in my van ($900). I just got a refund for a pond aerator that stopped working after a few weeks. And the head came off my plastic toy.

Hardware fails all the time: does that mean I can generically say all manufacturing has shitty QC?

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blt6y ago

I'd say the aerator and toy are analogous to software bugs, but the wheel bearing is a wear item. Even the best-engineered hardware has parts that wear out. That kind of planned maintenance has no equivalent in software.

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