One in a Million Computer Failure

Theres only a 1 in a million chance something could go wrong. but commuters do billions of things per second D’OH!

A collage shows probability balls, computer code, a nuclear explosion, and Homer Simpson shouting “D’OH!”. The joke is that even a tiny per-event failure chance becomes almost certain when computers perform billions of operations per second, making this a reaction to overconfident risk estimates.

• @dev_meme / 2512 2020-12-23