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Re:How to gain code execution on hundreds of millions of peo... by ImPostingOnHN on Sunday March 02, 2025 @09:24AM (#43230785)
> A bad design decision in some critical software can have just as much of an impact as a bad design decision in a bridge or an airplane.

This is a better point than you realize. Blameless postmortems in IT are largely inspired by blameless postmortems from aerospace failures.

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Re:How to gain code execution on hundreds of millions of peo... by Eisenstein on Sunday March 02, 2025 @12:30PM (#43232771)
If aerospace gets away with it then we should fix that as well.
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Re:How to gain code execution on hundreds of millions of peo... by ImPostingOnHN on Sunday March 02, 2025 @02:06PM (#43233789)
On the contrary: blameless postmortems are better.
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