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I remember a story from a couple of years ago about how 747s couldn't have more than like a week of uptime without running into catastrophic problems, and progg
by ranger207 4y ago
I remember a story from a couple of years ago about how 747s couldn't have more than like a week of uptime without running into catastrophic problems, and proggit and hn were in disbelief about the poor quality of the code and wondered how often it became an issue in flight. Turns out never, because the computers were restarted regularly for maintenance, and besides that were designed to safely restart in the air just in case anyway
- Tempest1981 4y ago"FAA: Reboot 787 power once in a while" (2016) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13094600 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13094600