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More than 200 people with diabetes have been injured when their insulin pumps shut down unexpectedly due to a problem with a connected mobile app, the US Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday.

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[-] anlumo@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago

In the military, direct harm is the only goal. Not quite like the others.

[-] tunetardis@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 months ago

I think I could get very nervous coding for the military, depending on what sort of application I was working on. If it were some sort of administrative database, that doesn't sound so bad. If it were a missile guidance system, on man! A single bug and there goes a village full of civilians. Even something without direct human casualties could be nerve-wracking. Like if it were your code which bricked a billion-dollar military satellite.

Speaking of missile guidance systems, I once met someone who worked a stint for a military contractor. He told me a story about a junior dev who discovered an egregious memory leak in a cruise missile's software. The senior dev then told him "Yeah, I know about that one. But the memory leak would take an hour before it brings the system down and the missile's maximum flight time is less than that, so no problem!" I think coding like that would just drive me into some OCD hell.

[-] HubertManne@kbin.social 3 points 5 months ago

yeah. doing a bad job could even save lives. it would be a moral duty to screwup /s (yes I know that is not how it works)

[-] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago

Oh, I thought you were supposed to be protecting my country. I guess that oil money is too tempting

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