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Every so often I am reminded that our lives depend on software operating correctly, and it terrifies me.
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social.tomlarrow.comPost by Tom, @tom@social.tomlarrow.comI got called to come to my son's school to help change his insulin pod. I got there to discover that the app on his phone had thrown a memory corruption error and wiped out all of his insulin dosage settings Fortunately, I have been keeping a copy of those settings in a self-hosted git repositor...
@andrewg — in graduate school my friend Ezra Sidran and I had a long-standing argument. Some fraction of programmers were genuinely harmful to society. We disagreed bitterly on whether it was 80% or 90%.
Ez ultimately agreed I was right and it was 90%, which is why the ensuing laws are the Hansen-Sidran Laws and not the Sidran-Hansen.