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yk 4 days ago

The Windows 98 license actually did forbid using Windows in nuclear power plants (along with other high risk areas). That was due to some interaction with the Java license and I always considered it a very fortunate fluke.

netsharc 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

The same thing with QuickTime (remember QuickTime, and trailers.apple.com?)..

Ah, where did that carefree time go, where we had the time to read licenses...

zamadatix 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Reference for those curious: https://archive.org/stream/microsoft-windows-98-second-editi...

btown 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

"It looks like you're trying to insert some control rods. Would you like help with that?"

yieldcrv 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

funny, except now it will be Ani as the avatar to Grok Unhinged

rising-sky 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

nuclear_power_run_book.doc

arthurcolle 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

K://nuclear_power_run_book FOR NEW JOINERS (v2 copy).docx (3) (SHARED)

johncolanduoni 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I’m sure it’s printed out and put in a 3-ring binder, but why wouldn’t the instructions for “what to do when the primary coolant loop pressure drops” be in a Word document somewhere?

btown 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

In all seriousness, it’s only a matter of time before an LLM makes a critical error in language-translating (or even being used to write) a reference manual for an industrial process, and escapes the attention of regulators. One can only hope that that process is not nuclear…

fernmyth 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

Hey, remember that time we used "an organic" kitty litter instead of "inorganic" kitty litter and the resulting explosion cost a half-billion dollars to clean up? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_Isolation_Pilot_Plant#20...

johncolanduoni 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I’m not sure we’ll notice an increase of these kinds of things. There was a case well before AI where a process chemist replaced propylene glycol with ethylene glycol in over-the-counter medicine and a bunch of people died.

aledalgrande 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

File corrupted, bad sector