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17y ago
No but you would have to pay fees if you produced kids with cancer.
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17y ago
The main problem with software 'engineering' is the fragility of software. In a structure you know there will be cracks, so you choose a material that is ductile enough that a crack can't grow to dangerous size in the lifetime of the compon
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17y ago
It doesn't - but can you guarantee that everything it is talking to doesn't also change? A GPS string might erroneously say it's day 367 or be one character too long because it printed 20010 or a telemetry link might ask for 4million readin
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17y ago
The Burj Dubai, like any other structure is full of bugs. The point of engineering is to make a system that is resilient to a certain level of faults. That's why the tower doesn't collapse if there is a 0.1 mm crack in one of the bolts.
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17y ago
They use the same industrial computers ands real-time OSs that modern airliners use, and which Nasa uses on more modern kit. The shuttle software isn't necessarily a good engineering solution.Spending the same time/effort/budget on a more c