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What a cute story about writing software to kill people by shredding them with shrapnel.
by DagAgren 7y ago
What a cute story about writing software to kill people by shredding them with shrapnel.
- swalsh 7y agoWhat if the bomb is landing on someone who intends to kill you?
- pietrovismara 7y agoHave you watched Minority Report? What could go wrong with preemptively punishing crimes!
- colonCapitalDee 7y agoThis is a strawman. Nobody uses missiles for law enforcement, the very idea is ridiculous. Presumably the > person who intends to kill you in this context is a terrorist hiding a cave somewhere, or a certain Iranian general. Now, it's definitely debatable if those striking those targets is morally correct (and I usually don't believe that it is), but it's silly to equate a military strike with the type of law enforcement seen in Minority Report.
- DagAgren 7y agoA "terrorist hiding in a cave" is the actual strawman here.
- colonCapitalDee 7y agoUhh who do you think missiles are usually launched at?
- DagAgren 7y agoPeople going about their lives just like you and me, surrounded by other people, mostly. They may be terrorists, but that does not make their daily lives much different to ours.
- DoofusOfDeath 7y agoThere's a difference between delighting in war vs. accepting it as sometimes the lesser of two evils. I'm okay with discussing the software-engineering considerations needed to support the latter.
- daenz 7y agoMissiles are also used for defense to intercept threats.
- berns 7y agoThank you. I hadn't thought of that possibility. Now I can join the others in discussing the optimal memory management strategy for missile controllers.
- ptx 7y agoThose threats are sometimes an attempt at retaliation by whoever was attacked earlier by those now defending against the counter-attack, who are now free to attack without fear of the consequences thanks to the missile defense system.