Comment by gruez
3 days ago
>Someone signed off on software/hardware that lacked sufficient protections, find out who.
Crashed prod? Straight to jail.
3 days ago
>Someone signed off on software/hardware that lacked sufficient protections, find out who.
Crashed prod? Straight to jail.
Bridge collapsed? Straight to jail.
not true: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacoma_Narrows_Bridge_(1940) nothing happened to the lead designer (Moisseiff) or engineer (Eldridge)
> nothing happened to the lead designer (Moisseiff) or engineer (Eldridge)
It's a joke–a riff on a Parks and Recs meme making fun of Venezuela at the time. We don't jail aircraft engineers when they make a mistake because just sending people to jail doesn't work as well as encouraging them to co-operate ex post facto so the root cause can be identified.
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