alt Hacker NewsHumans generally don't do well when thinking of rare events, but still, you'd think an industry defined by Big-O notation and edge-cases would be a bit less less cavalier about what happens when a pile of impenetrable floating-point math gives suboptimal results.
You're forgetting that this is also the industry that just sort of accepts stuff breaking 5% of the time because "It's a transient error, just try it again"