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Computing Saves Lives

Name: Anonymous 2015-07-20 13:31

https://github.com/saniv/text/blob/master/notes/computing-saves-lives.txt

Name: Anonymous 2015-07-20 13:34

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Cray#Legacy
Cray died on October 5, 1996 (aged 71) of head and neck injuries suffered on September 22, 1996 in a traffic collision. Another driver tried to pass Cray on Interstate 25 in Colorado Springs, Colorado but struck a third car that then struck Cray's Jeep Cherokee, causing it to roll three times. Cray underwent emergency surgery and remained in the hospital until his death two weeks later.[14]

Name: Anonymous 2015-07-20 14:21

>>1
Executable File

lol what
why's a .txt executable? Get your shit together, Nikita

Name: Anonymous 2015-07-20 14:50

>>3
must be OSX

Name: Anonymous 2015-07-20 14:53

No idea how they got the -x flag, but it is stripped now
$ ls -l
total 1048
-rwxrwxrwx@ 1 nikita staff 4236 May 27 2014 cdr-coding.txt
-rwxrwxrwx@ 1 nikita staff 1949 Jul 20 16:30 computing-saves-lives.txt
-rwxrwxrwx@ 1 nikita staff 998 May 27 2014 gc-design.txt
-rw-rw-rw-@ 1 nikita staff 1901 Jun 17 2014 how-to-win-any-argument.txt
-rw-r--r--@ 1 nikita staff 480175 Dec 10 2014 john-lennon-reimagined.ogg
-rw-rw-rw-@ 1 nikita staff 388 Dec 10 2014 john-lennon-reimagined.txt
-rwxrwxrwx@ 1 nikita staff 6786 May 27 2014 nan-boxing.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 nikita staff 225 Jul 12 18:30 observations.txt
-rw-rw-rw-@ 1 nikita staff 754 Sep 8 2012 remote-swank.txt
-rwxrwxrwx 1 nikita staff 10809 Dec 14 2010 sbcl-tag-bits.html
$ chmod -x *
$ ls -l
total 1048
-rw-rw-rw-@ 1 nikita staff 4236 May 27 2014 cdr-coding.txt
-rw-rw-rw-@ 1 nikita staff 1949 Jul 20 16:30 computing-saves-lives.txt
-rw-rw-rw-@ 1 nikita staff 998 May 27 2014 gc-design.txt
-rw-rw-rw-@ 1 nikita staff 1901 Jun 17 2014 how-to-win-any-argument.txt
-rw-r--r--@ 1 nikita staff 480175 Dec 10 2014 john-lennon-reimagined.ogg
-rw-rw-rw-@ 1 nikita staff 388 Dec 10 2014 john-lennon-reimagined.txt
-rw-rw-rw-@ 1 nikita staff 6786 May 27 2014 nan-boxing.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 nikita staff 225 Jul 12 18:30 observations.txt
-rw-rw-rw-@ 1 nikita staff 754 Sep 8 2012 remote-swank.txt
-rw-rw-rw- 1 nikita staff 10809 Dec 14 2010 sbcl-tag-bits.html

Name: Anonymous 2015-07-20 14:53

And how do you plan to deal with overpopulation after saving all these lives?

Name: Anonymous 2015-07-20 15:05

>>6
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birth_credit

Name: Anonymous 2015-07-20 15:48

Nikita, be honest with yourself. Most of this traffic control will be written either in Java or C. Lives will be lost to NullPointerExceptions, buffer overflows and app-quality code.

Have you not read of this?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009%E2%80%9311_Toyota_vehicle_recalls
https://jaxenter.com/the-dangers-of-spaghetti-code-117807.html
http://users.ece.cmu.edu/~koopman/pubs/koopman14_toyota_ua_slides.pdf

What do you think will happen if we let appers handle something as sensitive as traffic?

Name: Anonymous 2015-07-20 15:50

>>8
life-critical software
written either in Java or C
are they mad?

Name: Anonymous 2015-07-20 15:53

>>9
especially Java with its unpredictable garbage collection

Name: Anonymous 2015-07-20 16:45

>>6
Overpopulation is not a problem in white countries. Low birth rates with an aging population is the problem. Stop letting niggers breed and you won't have to worry about it.
>>9
This is what people consider to be acceptable software design. It's what they learn from colleges and enterprise.

Name: Anonymous 2015-07-20 17:46

>>9-10
It would be Java for certain, car software is the most bloated thing in the world right now:

http://infobeautiful3.s3.amazonaws.com/2014/11/1276_Codebases.png

Name: Anonymous 2015-07-20 18:03

Why does a car need software? My car is a bit old, so maybe I'm out of the loop, but I can't see how a car would need all this.

Name: Anonymous 2015-07-20 19:23

>>13
Some automated systems like anti-lock brakes or stability/traction control need calculations to know when to activate and to what extent. Also, cars have lots of sensors that let you know when something's about to go wrong, like a door being open, your next oil change getting closer or a system running in non-optimal conditions.

That doesn't explain the bloat, though. As complex as a car might be, having an executable size of more than 10MB just to read some pin inputs is way beyond retarded.

Name: Anonymous 2015-07-20 19:51

>>14
I thought all that stuff could be done mechanically?

Name: Anonymous 2015-07-20 20:07

>>15
Anti-lock brakes, in a nutshell, ease off the brake pads when a wheel is slipping. Not sure how you can do that without having sensors on each wheel and a computer to act accordingly.

Name: Anonymous 2015-07-20 20:07

>>12
why facebook is so huge?

Name: Anonymous 2015-07-20 20:54

>>14
high-end car
Probably the bloat is due to all the various gimmicks, infotainment systems, dimming lights, windows lifts, seat movement, headlight setting, mirror setting.
In a modern car they're probably all connected to some kind of bus, and need to support various cars and configurations.

>>17
They keep everything in a single repository

Name: Anonymous 2015-07-20 20:56

>>17
It must be all the NSA botnets

Name: Anonymous 2015-07-20 21:07

>>1
Computers save lives until they are hacked or crash. Then they can terminate all lives for which we have assigned them responsibility.

Name: Anonymous 2015-07-20 22:30

>>21
Humans save lives until they get sick or fuck up. Then they can terminate all lives for which we have assigned them responsibility.

Both humans and computers are useless niggers. What we need is faith in Allah.

Name: Anonymous 2015-07-20 22:46

>>20
implying there is no failsafe/redundancy and they will crash all at once

Name: Anonymous 2015-07-20 22:54

>>21
Yeah but you can't convert 1 million humans into mass murderers overnight. A worm with a zero day can do this to computers.

>>22
They can and will be exploited all at once to maximize damage. I look forward to watching you all get killed by your gadgets that provide completely unnecessary features while I escape to safety on my 100% mechanical motorcycle.

Name: Anonymous 2015-07-20 23:08

>>22
Fuck off with your implying meme back to /g/, you're not funny.

Name: Anonymous 2015-07-20 23:15

>>24
fuck off with 'who are you quoting'

Name: Anonymous 2015-07-20 23:19

>>25
I never used that phrase.

Name: Anonymous 2015-07-20 23:23

>>24
learn logic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deductive_reasoning

Name: Anonymous 2015-07-21 0:48

>>27
Learn proper prose, meme-addicted kid.

Name: Anonymous 2016-06-10 17:57

>>16
That sort of thing probably could be implemented mechanically, but electronics are a better choice - smaller, more reliable, able to log errors, etc.
Don't change these.
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