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Imagine the next jumbo jet using avionics rendered on Electron.
by sansnomme 6y ago
Imagine the next jumbo jet using avionics rendered on Electron.
- FridgeSeal 6y agoI could have done without that thought thank you. * your plane crashes because the avionics computer OOM’s because you’re running chrome * your plane crashes because JS decides that the pitch angle is suddenly NaN and plows the plane into the ground. * your plane won’t take off, because there’s been yet another NPM dependency breakage because someone got annoyed and removed their single line “right pad” package, which causes the avionics to break because some dependency 400 layers down the tree used it to align an ad that displays on the command line at startup * the plane crashes because in an emergency the pilots couldn’t find the instrumentation they were looking for, because the UI was updated for the 15th time that month and that disk has been removed “because A/B testing showed nobody clicked on it”.
- Tade0 6y ago* the plane crashes because there was an undiscovered bug in an important library whose sole maintainer is currently in a penal colony.
- osobo 6y agoOddly specific
- FridgeSeal 6y agoIf you are out-of-the-loop, it’s a reference to this: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/03/26/corejs_maintainer_jailed_code_release/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/03/26/corejs_maintainer_j... Associated HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22681860 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22681860
- samschooler 6y ago* the plane crashes because its not connected to the internet and the auto pilot cannot get a gps route via the google maps directions api
- taneq 6y agoI remember seeing some stuff about ultralights using an iPad app for flight instruments. That was scary enough.
- numlock86 6y agoMarking this to reference it in a couple of years or decades, when it probably has become a laughable understatement instead of a sarcastic exaggeration.