gedhrel@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Infamous $30 Logitech F710 called out in $50M lawsuit over Titan sub implosionEnglish
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1 month agoHave you seen pictures of the sub? What makes you think the wiring was all hidden?
Have you seen pictures of the sub? What makes you think the wiring was all hidden?
You joke, but watch this:
https://archive.org/details/take-me-to-titanic
from 29 minutes in. A last-minute adjustment before launch plugged in a thruster backwards; no protocol to check the behaviour prelaunch. They doscovered it when they got to the bottom.
…unless it’s running software that uses signed 32-bit timestamps, or stores data using that format.
The point about the “millennium bug” was that it was a category of problems that required (hundreds of) thousands of fixes. It didn’t matter if your OS was immune, because the OS isn’t where the value is.
The score for “The Mission” is another absolutely cracking one.