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		thih9 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What's in that bright red fire retardant? No one w... It reminds me of handling null values or other kinds of exceptional situations in coding. We can assume they happen for some reason but unless we actually ensure that, the branch for handling the intended exception can silently start handling other use cases too.

IndrekR 9 months ago [–]

That is why Therac-25 was mentioned, I guess. Software kills: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25

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