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Re:After Alaska Airlines planes bump runway, a scramble to ‘... by hn_throwaway_99 on Saturday February 18, 2023 @12:32PM (#34848873)
Please let us know where these software magicians are that write perfect, bug-free code.
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Re:After Alaska Airlines planes bump runway, a scramble to ‘... by jki275 on Saturday February 18, 2023 @12:55PM (#34849156)
Who said anything about that? You're arguing against a straw man nobody has set up but yourself..

There's no such thing as perfect software, but there is definitely software that doesn't make up a false value if it can't work.

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Re:After Alaska Airlines planes bump runway, a scramble to ‘... by forgottenlogin9 on Saturday February 18, 2023 @09:22PM (#34853540)
And if there is a bug in the logic that determines if it can or can’t work?
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Re:After Alaska Airlines planes bump runway, a scramble to ‘... by jki275 on Sunday February 19, 2023 @06:53PM (#34863185)
fail safe. Don't fail stupid.
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Re:After Alaska Airlines planes bump runway, a scramble to ‘... by tantalor on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @08:49AM (#34895385)
Hence the crumple thingy on the tail of the aircraft
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