Failure rates in multi-step, manual sequences

Source Data Using the Human Error Rates in a previous post. Example - github.com - Creating a pull request from a fork Process 1 - List the steps Navigate to original repository Right of the Branch mean, click New Pull Request On the Compare page, click compare across forks Confirm base-fork and base-branch Use head fork to select fork, compare branch to select branch Type a title and description for your pull request If you do not want to allow upstream edits, unselect Allow edits 2 - Classify the steps and add error rates Steps Classification Error rate 1.
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Intel/Linux process isolation and containment

The Linux process model We’ll take a traditional multi-user Linux environment as a starting point. In this scenario, the provider runs the hardware, the operating system and supporting system functions. It turns out that on Linux processes cannot actually do much beyond compute operations on data in their own memory space. In order to do anything outside of that a process has to request that the kernel perform an operation on its behalf.
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