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Non-twitter link: https://nitter.net/morganherlocker/status/173045572181552742... (edit: I'm not the author) "Notified today that my insulin pump controller has a bug where the leading decimal point will be dropped, ie: changing a dose of .21 units to 21 units. I can reproduce randomly ~1 in 5 times so probably a race condition. Easily one of the worst software bugs I have ever heard of."

Therac-25 walks into the chat.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25

Re: My insulin pump controller has a bug

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Cue the "you wouldn't steal a car" music. ♫ "You wouldn't demand open-source software for life-critical contexts instead of the industry-perfected closed software" ♫

Are you implying that open source software doesn't have bugs because there are thousands of reviewers looking at every commit? If you do you haven't actually worked on open source software. Even in critical software people just LGTM.

No. Just saying that there comes a time where a company may be refusing to fix bugs because they aren't earning enough money associated with that software.

So, open-source may win there. It's worth thinking about it.

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