I am worried about a software fix for what looks like hardware problem.

themerone 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Gracefully handling hardware faults is a software problem. The Air France Flight 447 crash was the result of bad software and bad hardware.

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vel0city 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I'm reminded of the Apollo moon landing where the computer was rapidly rebooting and being in an OK-ish state to continue to be useful almost immediately

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		It wasn't rebooting, it ran out of memory and started aborting lower priority tasks. It was a excellent example of robust programming in the face of unexpected usage scenarios.

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idkfasayer an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

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afavour 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It could be as simple as storing multiple copies of the relevant data and adding a checksum, something like that.

Hardware fix is the ultimate solution but it might be possible to paper over with software.

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kachapopopow 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

software fixes are totally fine since the chance of two redundant pairs failing within the time it takes to correct these errors is more zero's than there are atoms in the universe. (each pilot has a redundant computer and because there's two pilots there's two redundant pairs)

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