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d0ugal | 4 years ago

IIUC NASA achieve high reliability for problems that don’t seem simple.

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Madmallard|4 years ago

Yeah, because their incentives strongly align with it. The argument is that the incentives don't align outside of mission critical systems.

d0ugal|4 years ago

Right, agreed. I was replying to this from the comment. Which seemed to claim it was impossible.

> We'll never achieve high reliability for anything but the simplest software

Sorry, I wasn’t very clear!

AniseAbyss|4 years ago

Sometimes your seemingly non mission critical software can be exploited in such a way that the entire system is cracked wide open.