The Buncefield report: Or overlooking the obvious
Why sometimes simpler is better in safety engineering.
Archives For Dissimilar Redundancy
How do ya do and shake hands, shake hands, shake hands. How do ya do and shake hands and state your name and business… Tweedle Dum & Dee (Through the Looking Glass)Lewis Carrol
Yes Alice, Some folk still believe in N Versioning
You would have thought after the Leveson and Knights experiments that the theory that independently written software would only contain independent faults was dead and buried.
Another beautiful theory shot down by hard cold fact. Unfortunately like conspiracy theories the theory of n-versioning keeps on keeping on (1).
Now this would be of only passing interests if it weren’t for the fact that engineers actually continue to build systems that relay on what is effectively pseudo-scientific gibberish (2).
