this post was submitted on 04 May 2024
736 points (97.3% liked)

Technology

59672 readers
2708 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots


founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 124 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, I'm an embedded software developer myself and yeah, when we architect our code we have safety critical sections identified with software safety reviews and we always go with the assumption that we're going to run into that one guy who's the living embodiment of Murphy's law and go from there with that design to minimize the potential for injury and death.

Can't imagine who the hell is in charge of the software safety reviews there that let that pass.

[–] [email protected] 83 points 6 months ago (3 children)

You think a company run by Elon has an extensive software safety review system?

[–] [email protected] 58 points 6 months ago (1 children)

They did, but Elon asked one of them for a latte and they brought him one with 2% instead of oatmilk so he gutted the whole department.

/s, because it might be to be specified.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 months ago

Are you certain you're wrong, though?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 months ago

Not anymore they were all fired.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Whose company that sends a poop emoji as a response when the PR department is emailed? Hmm, this us a tough question. . .

[–] [email protected] 34 points 6 months ago

Same in the medical devices industry. We have whole teams of non-developers whose job is to find out when and why a surgeon can be a moron. The code is more difficult to write, but it's way better and more robust.