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		samatman on April 18, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How the Boeing 737 Max disaster looks to a softwar... Ironically, the solution to this in spacecraft, where radiation is a given, is 2 of 3 with polling. The system which should have been using for attitude detection in the 737 MAX, and wasn't.

throwaway2048 on April 18, 2019 [–]

Dosen't eliminate a single point of failure, after all a bitflip in the voting mechanism can also result in error.

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