Post B8NAtPxl1WVF0jrxmC by mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org
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 (DIR) Post #B8L1porDEklz9q66Xw by ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org
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       @bjb Oh wow, I didn't know about that one!!!
       
 (DIR) Post #B8L1pp5OO27DrojQeG by ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org
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       @bjb Oh geez🤯 "..."the worst series of radiation accidents in the 35-year history of medical accelerators".[3] Because of concurrent programming errors (also known as race conditions), it sometimes gave its patients radiation doses that were up to 250 times higher than normal, resulting in death or serious injury....""...The software for the Therac-25 was developed by one person over several years using PDP-11 assembly language. It was an evolution of the Therac-6 software. In 1986, the programmer left AECL. In a subsequent lawsuit, lawyers were unable to identify the programmer or learn about his qualification and experience...."#disasters https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25
       
 (DIR) Post #B8NAtPfK83l25ZFF2m by evilotto@sfba.social
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       @alienghic @ai6yr @bjb For DevOps people, there's Knightmare - bankrupt the company in 45 minutes with a bad deployment.https://dougseven.com/2014/04/17/knightmare-a-devops-cautionary-tale/
       
 (DIR) Post #B8NAtPxl1WVF0jrxmC by mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org
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       @evilotto @alienghic @ai6yr @bjb the amount of pity I have for the class of companies known as high-frequency traders is limited