Post #2322907
2026-03-10 13:39 UTC
@phf@dmv.community @dreid@wandering.shop Assume you mean Strategic Defense Initiative aka "Star Wars" aka some orbiting death lasers to shoot down ICBMs?
Funny you should mention that, DLP was my favorite prof in university:
_On June 28, 1985, David Lorge Parnas resigned from SDIO's Panel on Computing in Support of Battle Management, arguing in eight short papers that the SDI software could never be made trustworthy.._
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@tezoatlipoca@mas.to 2026-03-10 13:39
@phf@dmv.community @dreid@wandering.shop _and that such a system would inevitably be unreliable and menace humanity in its own right.[103] Parnas said he joined the panel with the desire to make nuclear weapons "impotent and obsolete" but soon concluded that the concept was "a fraud"._ I _still_ use what I learned from him about information hiding and abstraction in IF design _daily_. 2/2