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software engineers are aware of <DST, weird person names, malicious users, 4-byte UTF characters etc> yet they still write software that doesn't handle them wel
by riffraff 8y ago
software engineers are aware of <DST, weird person names, malicious users, 4-byte UTF characters etc> yet they still write software that doesn't handle them well.
The fact that people abstractly know a situation exists does not mean they will handle it correctly.
Also, remember the issues with "racist" face recognition systems that were trained on non-diverse data sets?
It's not like google engineers forgot black people exist, but I think it's not trivial to pay the proper attention to some problems if they are outside of your daily experience.