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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Still can't believe it happened the first time.

"Oh let's just reuse the code and forget the hardware breakers on the machine it'll be fine."

Like I have no ethics training but they even had a (human operated) control rod in the first chicago pile who trusts a radiation gun to a SOFTWARE toggle?

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

It wasn't collectively known that software was hard to do right at that time. If it always performed as intended it would have made for a less expensive and perfectly safe machine. It's the textbook case in doing software wrong because there wasn't one that happened before it.