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Quality is usually understood as a continuous variable. Eg uptime fraction, failure rate, tolerances. But it's actually a sort of staircase with steep and gentle slopes alternating. The "continuous" quality is the gentle slope. The steep slope is when use cases change.
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Like cloth masks, cloth masks with filters, N95s, N100s... some use cases don't even begin before a quality threshold is met
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There's even 0-1 from non-functional to functional. Like masks that fit so poorly they do basically nothing, but do satisfy masking requirements in covid theater, and reinforce norms if not safety.
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