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Re:Boeing 787s must be turned off and on every 51 days (2020) by bellyfullofbac on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @10:50AM (#27118749)
Ouch, imagine dying because of a rounding off error...

More detail in 1 link from the article: https://web.archive.org/web/20100702180720/http://mate.uprh....

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Re:Boeing 787s must be turned off and on every 51 days (2020) by interestica on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @05:45PM (#27123950)
Kind of related. I always found it interesting that the Terminator's heads up display noted no casualties as "0.0" -- and I always wondered how a computer/killing-machine from the future might calculate casualties.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=oolP65DLQLY

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Re:Boeing 787s must be turned off and on every 51 days (2020) by heavenlyblue on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @04:06PM (#27122844)
Taking a contrarian point of view: people die for far simpler reasons.
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