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bkdbkd | 6 years ago

Those crashes are like: You tell your machine to open the file with Emacs, but this new distro has unbeknownst to you (and you find out later, undocumented) symlinked the emacs command to a version of vim with a emacs-like overlay, because of some issue they had. The file crashes vim, but in a crazy memory overflow before he dies manages to take out the system, causing spurious disk writes which corrupts your boot drive.

- The MCAS system. Got bad information and did a very bad thing. It was the entire time operating as it was designed. The fact that the astronauts were not given the information on how to turn HAL off in the event he goes berserk isn't really their fault.

Just to be clear - The MCAS system was actively trying to fly the plane into the ground. It thought it was trying to save the plane from a stall. It was wrong. The pilots attempted to override the system. They could not. They attempted to outfly the system. They could not. They could have killed the system. Boeing did not teach them how.

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