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Re:Deep dive into the UK air traffic control meltdown by numpad0 on Monday September 11, 2023 @12:59PM (#37470135)
Crash is a feature, though. It's not like exceptions raises by itself into interpreter specifications. It's just that it so happens that Web apps ain't need no airbags that slow down businesses.
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Re:Deep dive into the UK air traffic control meltdown by marcosdumay on Monday September 11, 2023 @01:39PM (#37470726)
On a multi-user system, only partial crashes are features. Total crashes are bugs.

A web server is a multi-user system, just like a country's air traffic control.

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Re:Deep dive into the UK air traffic control meltdown by Spivak on Monday September 11, 2023 @01:16PM (#37470370)
I love that phrasing, I'm gonna use that from now on when talking about low-stakes vs high-stakes systems.
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Re:Deep dive into the UK air traffic control meltdown by acdha on Monday September 11, 2023 @02:05PM (#37471119)
That line of reasoning is how you have systemic failures like this (or the Ariane 5 debacle). It only makes sense in the most dire of situations, like shutting down a reactor, not input validation. At most this failure should have grounded just the one affected flight rather than the entire transportation network.
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