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		gavinhoward on Oct 5, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Is Software Engineering Real Engineering? The Therac-25 disagrees with you. Hardware interlocks were replaced with software. And people died.

aswanson on Oct 5, 2023 [–]

Almost, not always. I'm personally terrified any braking mechanism is under any level of software control, for example.

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