How history's worst software error weaponized a radiation machine

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ap0orGCiou8

>deciding how to inform users they could be about to deliver a lethal dose of radiation to their patient

>"MALFUNCTION 54"

>refuses to elaborate

>leaves company

:gigachad#:

Rly tho this is horrifying and a good reminder of why QA and code reviews are important. Imagine trusting your life to a program written solo by some random neurodivergent "code hobbyist."

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Rly tho this is horrifying and a good reminder of why QA and code reviews are important.

More people argue, convincingly, that the lesson is "don't rely on a single implementation for a critical safety function." Even if the software was perfect, what if a sensor reports incorrectly, like on the crashed 373 MAX jets?

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For sure, there should have been multiple failsafes, including hardware ones, like the vid mentions. But I'm just a programmer so the absolute r-sluration of the software irks me

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I haven't seen the video, but I'm very familiar with this story (and the removal of hardware safeguards from the troublesome model).

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Your post has rendered me completely and utterly impotent. Nowhere in that cesspool of cute twinkry did I encounter anything even resembling intelligent thought. I physically cannot open reddit with these chodes inhabiting it. My quality of life is now quantitatively worse that it was before I was exposed to what is essentially the intellectual equivalent of a :marseytrain: offing themselves.

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