It's almost as if context matters for random numbers. A 98% success rate for a parachute is criminal, but if I could achieve 98% of my goals, I couldn't be happier.

It depends on your requirements. The term that should have been mentioned is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_availability

You can make it so those 2% are dealing with ugly -but functional- layouts

it that reduces development/maintenance cost by a lot, that's not a terrible deal.

If for 2% of users a webpage will not look as awesome as intended (it's not guaranteed that it will be broken), that's ok. It's not poisoning - it's a 98% chance of getting a top mark.

I couldn't agree more. BTW, 98% of US users have JavaScript enabled in 2025.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/No-JavaScript_notes

Depends on the context

I thought this would be about AI slop.

Weird rant, unless they meant it as a anti-corporate screed against how openly hostile US technology has become to western democracies. Definitely didn't read as that way.

It feels as if OP independently invented the concept of six sigma.

Six sigma is a bit cultish, but overall the concept is quite clear - quality.

98% in a restaurant is horrible, because restaurants usually issue more than 100 meals per day. So 2% rate would mean a problem every day.

Although usually the distribution here would be different 98 good days and 2 bad where hundreds get food posioning..

>> But a restaurant where clients don’t get of food poisoning 98% of time is getting people sick on a monthly (or even weekly) basis.

Objectively, I think it's impossible to work in the food industry and avoid food poisoning 100% of the time. One of the reasons I never attempted several of my food industry business ideas. I'm certain they would be at least profitable enough to keep going, would be rather trivial to access EU subsidy money in the €50k, but the amount of regulations and inspections terrifies me. And I'm sure at some point, some salmonella or what else would slip through and don't wanna deal with the consequences.

Easier with programming computers since a "bug" won't make people expell waste simultaneously through both incoming and outgoing food orifices, like it happend to me last time I ordered sarmale from a local restaurant. Like in the food industry a "bug" is literally that.