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It's terrifying to think what could happen with a mass coronal ejection or some other catastrophic event. When you see events like this and the Ever Given incident.

We've built a very complex distributed system that lacks resiliency in some very serious ways.

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This is perhaps a hyperbolic. Self-driving tractors can always be driven by hand when needed.

Driving the tractors is pretty far down on the things to worry about if a CME happens where every electrical grid on the planet would be down for months

Thanks, I misunderstood.

Nitpicking maybe but in the event described, a lot of people would need to start doing things they’ve never done before, like driving super large tractors ?

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