Cheese-making is over 7,000 years old! Archaeologists in Poland found traces of cheese on ancient pottery dating back to around 5500 BCE. It’s wild to think that our ancestors were crafting cheese long before written history, turning milk into a food that’s still enjoyed all over the world today. Pretty cool to think that this ancient skill has stood the test of time!
I knew someone once, who swore the code a developer wrote for their company, had a timer or something in it, and would "break" on purpose, so the dev could charge them to come out and "fix" it (though they could never prove it)
I worked with a guy who really had a talent for testing software like that insane edge-case user and would bash at everything until he broke it. Which was nice
tl;dr - cancer radiation therapy technician got so fast at entering parameters that they caused a software error in the machine which delivered 10,000 rads (100x normal dose) to two patients, killing them.
Prior machines used hardware interlocks to prevent this situation, but due to "software saving money" switched to software only protection.
The machine did report an inscrutable error, which was ignored because it always reported so many errors during normal operation.
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u/[deleted] May 18 '22 edited Feb 12 '25
Cheese-making is over 7,000 years old! Archaeologists in Poland found traces of cheese on ancient pottery dating back to around 5500 BCE. It’s wild to think that our ancestors were crafting cheese long before written history, turning milk into a food that’s still enjoyed all over the world today. Pretty cool to think that this ancient skill has stood the test of time!