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A bug in the code controlling the Therac-25 radiation therapy machine was directly responsible for at least five patient deaths in the 1980s when it administered excessive quantities of beta radiation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_software_bugs#Tracking_years
For the 99.99% of people that don’t make software that can kill people, OPs post is true.
No one cares if “uber but for X” has some downtime because some dingus forgot what a linked list is.
Which is good, because we’d have a lot less software if it all had to be completely bulletproof.
Life safety systems, fire protection, most controls, really
Hello, I am Felon Musk and I will rewrite all of.code on earth for everything because I am a god and absolutely everything will be chainsaw and blueballs fantastic.
I am srsly.
If you’ve worked in aerospace, you may have heard the phrase “we ain’t in the washing machine business”
Or self driving cars.
