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lopatir2-Apr-20 23:02
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Hardware is becoming more advanced but inasmuch needs better software to exploit its potential.

reading the article in today's news: Boeing 787s must be turned off and on every 51 days to prevent 'misleading data' being shown to pilots • The Register[^]

c'mon, how long has memory leaks been an issue and still not resolved?

the 787 is touted as the most advanced airliner based on its hardware capabilities
- yet a [probably 50 year] old software bug is bringing it to its knees.

the joke "have you tried turning it off and on again" not so funny when lives actually at risk.

modern hardware is made the best ever by advances that render better performance and reduced failure possibilities Software has had the same amount of time to achieve this too

so why in the same time has software not reduced its failure possibilities???
- wasn't all these new programming languages supposed to fix that per claims: "make that impossible"??
- wasn't new operating systems/kernels supposed to fix that per claims: "make that impossible"??
- wasn't testing supposed to identify areas where potential failures existed and per claims "make broken releases all but impossible"???

there are days when being a software dev brings real shame. Should've gone to law school.
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