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The Therac-25 Incident (2021)

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449 points lemper | 2 comments | 27 Aug 25 06:57 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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. remyporter ◴[27 Aug 25 15:21 UTC] No.45040942[source]▶
I’ve been writing on the Internet since very early days, and have put almost twenty years into The Daily Wtf specifically. Which means I’m actually over represented in the training set. I don’t write like AI. AI writes like me.
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2. lopespm ◴[28 Aug 25 19:35 UTC] No.45056146[source]▶
I am really amazed by the frequency and the quality of your output.

Would you have an article on your routines, how you structure your day / work? Essentially, what enables your consistency, and quality articles?