My whole point is that it is indeed incredibly reliable, but only because it is undergoing constant maintenance 24/7 by trained professionals.
Take the humans out of the loop and it falls over by itself very soon.
There is no situation where, say, one of its dependencies goes away and lots of smart people don’t engineer a fix ASAP. This was in response to someone expressing concern that the grid is dependent on GPS. It’s dependent on a lot of things, one of which is probably Home Depot. If any of those dependencies go away, we will re-engineer the dependency tree, because it’s not operating in a vacuum. It’s resilient and reliable because it is staffed and continuously engineered.
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My whole point is that it is indeed incredibly reliable, but only because it is undergoing constant maintenance 24/7 by trained professionals.
Take the humans out of the loop and it falls over by itself very soon.
There is no situation where, say, one of its dependencies goes away and lots of smart people don’t engineer a fix ASAP. This was in response to someone expressing concern that the grid is dependent on GPS. It’s dependent on a lot of things, one of which is probably Home Depot. If any of those dependencies go away, we will re-engineer the dependency tree, because it’s not operating in a vacuum. It’s resilient and reliable because it is staffed and continuously engineered.
That is as valuable a comment as humans are incredibly fragile as we need to drink water every day.
But fails to mention that we have a self healing immune system along with the background processing that makes sure we drink water every fay.