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> No software product has ever come within a cooee of sustaining decades to centuries of uptime at a stretch in the face of sustained attack. If you consider e
by wolfgke 11y ago
> No software product has ever come within a cooee of sustaining decades to centuries of uptime at a stretch in the face of sustained attack.
If you consider each change of a law as a break of the uptime (I mean: there is some "bug" in the laws, so it's changed), the uptime of, say, good embedded software is far better.
- jacques_chester 11y agoShow me an embedded system with live patching and as large a problem domain and let's run that comparison again.
- wolfgke 11y agoThe AXD301 switch > http://ll2.ai.mit.edu/talks/armstrong.pdf http://ll2.ai.mit.edu/talks/armstrong.pdf (from slide 27 on) > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlang_(programming_language)#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlang_(programming_language)#... "In 1998 Ericsson announced the AXD301 switch, containing over a million lines of Erlang and reported to achieve a high availability of nine "9"s." Additionally it is well-known that the AXD301 has live patching capabilities (which is not surprising, since Erlang has).
- jacques_chester 11y agoDoes the AXD301 switch handle trusts, estates, criminal punishment, taxes, court procedure, torts -- indeed, every single interaction between humans and the environment that they inhabit, including into the past, into the future, into space, under ground and sea, for concepts both physical and abstract, in a heterogenous cooperative world-spanning framework applicable to all human beings, animals, plants and objects, natural or artificial, living and dead? Don't get me wrong: software engineering has accomplished great things. My point is that the law has to face different, very fuzzy, unconstrained problems that cannot be simplified. (Also I would've used the Space Shuttle software, that's my favourite high water mark. Or the seL4 kernel).