On: Finding a problem at the bottom of the Google stac...

[cameronbrown]

> Sometimes they know better, but there is a failing to ask the question: “what does it cost to only act on symptoms not causes”

I imagine hardware breaking is the cost -- but as long as an engineer's time is worth more than the hardware, that tradeoff will be made.

[tjoff → cameronbrown]

Debugging and replacing is far more time consuming and costly, both in hardware money and engineer money.