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crow stuff
saw a crow fly past with a stick in its beak. I said "it's a bit late to build a nest, isn't it?" as it landed on the roof of a building nearby. "you're going to build a nest *there*?" and then I realized the crow was using the stick to dig through the gutters for bugtreats, and apologized for underestimating corvid intelligence, which I really should know better than to do. XD
I feel like therac-25 is particularly infamous but I'm curious if the danger of such things is explicitly taught.
Question for anyone who's gone through a university or technical school CS or related program (or whatever):
In any of your classes, was there ever a cautionary tale of software issues that could have life-threatening consequences? (Therac-25, multiple avionics control softwares, Toyota anti-lock brakes, 2003 northeast US blackout, etc?)
@noelle This is one of those videos I just keep coming back to and sharing every few years.
By the way, if you haven't seen Bobby McFerrin's two-minute - and almost wordless - presentation on the power of the pentatonic scale, drop what you're doing and watch it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne6tB2KiZuk #music
A lot of the writing in Leverage is weird and hilarious in ways that I *think* are unintentional but it's hard to tell.
Moving to @starkatt
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