Re: [DNG] ..timelessness and pricelessness, was: tiny service state api [WAS: Fwd: init system agnosticism]

[Ron]

On Thu, 20 Apr 2017 13:12:07 +0200
Didier Kryn  wrote:

> >> ... I was also been ironic on Aspo, as many times he can
> >> only counter another person's ideas asking "What if 
> >> cannot be trusted?", as if this constitutes a valid argument against  

> > ..."anything new that cannot fail", such as airport security,
> > airliner safety, anti-missile defense, ballot machines, etc...
> > ..if you wanna push some new kinda bling, you must be able to
> > credibly answer such timeless and priceless questions... ;o)

>   These are serious concerns which involve various aspects of security.
> If you need a response of your system within a  given delay and 
> with high security, then I think you should avoid any OS at all and 
> rather program FPGAs.
>   In several cases you mentionned, like ballot, crashing the system 
> is not a big deal; which matters is to not deliver a wrong result. 
> Better crash than give a wrong result.

In other words, always fail safe.
 
Cheers,
 
Ron.
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Re: [DNG] ..timelessness and pricelessness, was: tiny service state api [WAS: Fwd: init system agnosticism]

[Ron]

On Wed, 19 Apr 2017 13:36:02 +0200
Arnt Karlsen  wrote:

> > ... I was also been ironic on Aspo, as many times he can
> > only counter another person's ideas asking "What if 
> > cannot be trusted?", as if this constitutes a valid argument against  
> 
> ..."anything new that cannot fail", such as airport security,
> airliner safety, anti-missile defense, ballot machines, etc...
> 
> ..if you wanna push some new kinda bling, you must be able to
> credibly answer such timeless and priceless questions... ;o)

And never forget that any complex system will work most of the time in 
partial-failure mode...
 
Cheers,
 
Ron.
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