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The Therac-25 Incident (2021)

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449 points lemper | 1 comments | 27 Aug 25 06:57 UTC | HN request time: 0.433s | source
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mellosouls ◴[27 Aug 25 08:41 UTC] No.45036960[source]▶
TIL TheDailyWTF is still active. I'd thought it had settled to greatest hits only some years ago.
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greatgib ◴[27 Aug 25 09:32 UTC] No.45037284[source]▶
This story is kind of old. But also I'm suspicious that this was an AI generated content due to this weird paragraph (one becoming "they"):

   It's worth noting that there was one developer who wrote all of this code. They left AECL in 1986, and thankfully for them, no one has ever revealed their identity. And while it may be tempting to lay the blame at their feet—they made every technical choice, they coded every bug—it would be wildly unfair to do that.
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1. pie_flavor ◴[27 Aug 25 10:27 UTC] No.45037697[source]▶
'They' is a correct singular form for a person of unknown gender. Modern writing overwhelmingly uses it instead of 'he or she', but it has always been correct, has been predominant for a long time, and furthermore it doesn't have anything to do with AI, nor was AI viable as an authoring tool when this article was written, nor is Remy ever going to sell out. What a bizarre comment.