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I don't think anything in this incident pointed to a hardware fault The software raised an exception because a "// TODO: this should never happen" case happene

I don't think anything in this incident pointed to a hardware fault The software raised an exception because a "// TODO: this should never happen" case happened A hardware fault would look like machines not talking to each other or corrupted data file unreadable

sheepshear 3y ago
Retroactive inspection revealed that it wasn't a hardware failure, but the computer didn't know that at the time, and hardware failure can look like anything, so it was correct to exercise its only option.