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thoughts for the winter
Dec. 19th, 2018 12:35 amI'm probably going to start posting nerdy commentary about programming and similar things here, just to try to make sure I'm spending a bit more brainpower on it.
I had a large post started about one of the cautionary tales about sloppy programming that I studied this past year, the Therac-25. (It's a medical device, a linear accelerator, and the errors in programming resulted in some pretty terrifying things. I'd post it under a cut, because it's really hard to read if you're squeamish about medical mistakes.) It wasn't very technical, and I lost it because I didn't save it to a file. Might rewrite it later, since it's a good reminder not to be sloppy with important code.
Sometimes I don't think I can be technical about these things anymore. I know that it'll help when I'm not so tired from lack of caffeine. Just have to keep at recovering.
I had a large post started about one of the cautionary tales about sloppy programming that I studied this past year, the Therac-25. (It's a medical device, a linear accelerator, and the errors in programming resulted in some pretty terrifying things. I'd post it under a cut, because it's really hard to read if you're squeamish about medical mistakes.) It wasn't very technical, and I lost it because I didn't save it to a file. Might rewrite it later, since it's a good reminder not to be sloppy with important code.
Sometimes I don't think I can be technical about these things anymore. I know that it'll help when I'm not so tired from lack of caffeine. Just have to keep at recovering.
