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Schrödinger's Hubris, actually.

The claim that a codebase of 420k lines contains "only one error" is of course absurd, and the members of this forum would laugh anyone out of the room who made such a claim about any other project, pointing out how they cannot possibly know, actual logical contradictions in the claims as described by GP, or just plain ridiculing it without further elaboration.

But since the code in question cannot meaningfully be tested by the public, and people have been indoctrinated to believe the myth that aerospace engineers are an entirely different species that doesn't make mistakes in the sense that the rest of the workforce does, the hubris is accepted until disproven, which it probably won't be for various practical reasons.

Nevermind that the Space Shuttle was a death trap that killed two crews, and that the associated investigations (especially for Challenger) revealed numerous serious issues in quality and safety management. People will continue to just nod their head when they hear nonsense like this, because that's what they have seen others do, and so Schrödinger's Hubris can live on.




maybe just labeling it journalistic license would be simpler and more accurate.

I doubt any of the people who actually write the code would stand by when that claim was made and not clarify it to 'we only found one bug'.




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