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9 Jul, 3 tweets, 1 min read

Therac-25 wasn't a one-off and it is a bad teaching example.

As I've said for years: there are thousands of Theracs every day now.
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But, you know, SELF DRIVING CARS.

You bet the people who work on the Lasik firmware team ALL KNOW it's janky shit and there is no time allocated for tech debt or bug fixing.

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@cyanoacry For a start, risks giving these disasters false connotations:
1) places them mentally in the "primitive past", before we got amazing tools like nodejs and hibernate and such (No, they are more frequent than ever)…

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@cyanoacry 2) implies they are rare, and when they happen, they gain the stature of, well, the Therac-25 incident
(They are not rare! Many happened in the last hour)
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@cyanoacry 3) implies they are associated with exotic, horribly dangerous equipment such as involving radiation (also misleading. A complex accident might involve seemingly innocuous components)

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