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>Toggle the WDT input too slowly, too fast, or not at all, and a timeout will occur. Reminds me of an article I read a few years ago about designing systems to
by akoboldfrying 2y ago
>Toggle the WDT input too slowly, too fast, or not at all, and a timeout will occur.
Reminds me of an article I read a few years ago about designing systems to detect when (human) train drivers fall asleep at the wheel. Apparently it was an arms race for a long time: Designers kept coming up with increasingly complicated tasks for drivers to complete to signal their conscious state, like tapping buttons with their hands or feet at various time intervals, while drivers, for their part, kept figuring out ways to perform those tasks while actually functionally unconscious...
- sho_hn 2y agoAnd then trains adopted reCAPTCHA.
- ZevsVultAveHera 2y agoIs this for real?
- astrobe_ 2y agoThe "dead man's switch" being defeated by sleepwalkers. You have a similar situation as train drivers when you inadvertently kick the watchdog in an infinite loop. Or when a newbie thinks there's nothing wrong with it kicking it in some long loop.