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Comment by vorgol

I was going to recommend that exact podcast episode but you beat me to it. Totally worth listening, especially if you're interested in software bugs.

Another interesting fact mentioned in the podcast is that the earlier (manually operated) version of the machine did have the same fault. But it also had a failsafe fuse that blew so the fault never materialized. Excellent demonstration of the Swiss Cheese Model: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_cheese_model

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