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Wow. I’ve discovered many bugs in my life. But none caused me to fear for my life.

>There were often significant food shortages in the Soviet Union, and the government plan was to mix the meat from Chernobyl-area cattle with the uncontaminated meat from the rest of the country. This would lower the average radiation levels of the meat without wasting valuable resources. Upon discovering this, Sergei immediately filed immigration papers with any country that would listen. The computer crashes resolved themselves as radiation levels dropped over time.




Check on the Therac-25 case, whis is particularly scary for me, having worked for 10 years on medical software (on the sysadmin side).

A race condition which killed people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25

> It was involved in at least six accidents between 1985 and 1987, in which patients were given massive overdoses of radiation. Because of concurrent programming errors, it sometimes gave its patients radiation doses that were hundreds of times greater than normal, resulting in death or serious injury.




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