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themerone 3 hours ago

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

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

CrossVR an hour ago | parent [-]

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.

idkfasayer an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

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