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Re:Google Pixel 6 still freezes when calling Emergency Services by ok_dad on Sunday September 04, 2022 @04:18PM (#32717266)
I especially like the Therac-25 [0] as a good example for software engineers. A literal concurrency bug between the UI and radiation emitter caused at least 6 people to get massive overdoses of radiation. Think about that next time you're using a multi-thread/multi-process library!

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25

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