Oracle's Clive King and Chris Beal talk about hidden software on which we completely depend-the OS. Although OSs are highly reliable, no OS is perfect. So, when things go wrong in the OS running on modern systems, the needle-in-the-haystack analogy hardly begins to scratch the surface of the needed detective work.
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King et al. (2012) studied this question.
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