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There are no victims in engineering. Such phraseology should be saved for disciplines where emotion trumps reason, like politics.
by oldmanjay 10y ago
There are no victims in engineering. Such phraseology should be saved for disciplines where emotion trumps reason, like politics.
- loup-vaillant 10y agoI disagree. Engineering is full of needlessly awkward tools that end up being misused because of their useless warts. Every time that happens, the engineer that uses it is kind of a victim. And of course, there are the end users, who end up irradiated, spied upon, or robbed because of a technical failure allowed by needlessly unsafe tools. (Big emphasis on "needlessly". Sometimes, the requirements are so stringent that only the unsafe tools do the job. Embedded environments, AAA games, or video encoders come to mind. Most of the time though, safer, less efficient tools are more than enough.)