<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> Speaking of atrocious engineering design (and more specifically inappropriate design reuse) errors (leading to catastrophic human consequences), I like to refer to the Therac-25 ( <a href="http://sunnyday.mit.edu/papers/therac.pdf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">sunnyday.mit.edu/papers/therac</span><span class="invisible">.pdf</span></a> ), an absolute must read on this topic (or how bad, insecure code without hardware safeties could actually kill people)</p>