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minus-squarebleistift2@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoA 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
minus-squaresynicalx@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoFor 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.
minus-squareCanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 months agoWhich is good, because we’d have a lot less software if it all had to be completely bulletproof.
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.