Post #1989923
2026-03-27 00:03 UTC
We're discussing how this applies to the Therac-25 story.
The simple story is that "it's about race conditions", but the real story is a lot more complicated.
One example: the machine would frequently error and the errors were harmless, and in this case the error meant "the patient's dose is too high" but the operators didn't have that info.
#srecon
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@drmorr@hachyderm.io 2026-03-27 00:08
When it comes to incidents, there are different kinds or styles of stories you can tell: 1. "The horror story": we failed over and the problem followed us to the new region! 😱 2. "The morality tale": the engineer ignored the failing test and the bad code made it to production 😡 #srecon