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Exactly. If all it takes is one person to misplace a decimal or fsck up a calculation and your entire end product is fucked... brother that ain’t you, it’s the
by spookthesunset 7y ago
Exactly. If all it takes is one person to misplace a decimal or fsck up a calculation and your entire end product is fucked... brother that ain’t you, it’s the system that is fucked.
For any system that matters, you have to prevent a single (or multiple) failures from sinking it. Any new failure that happens should be evaluated in a blameless manner and solved by improving the system so mistakes of that class cannot happen again.
- jessaustin 7y agoI don't know the specifics for thread parent, but on many construction projects there is only one engineer, and even that engineer may be a sub to an architect. In my experience, architects are offended at the suggestion that they check the work of engineers, and engineers are offended by questions from clients. So, entirely due to the emotional preferences of the "one person", that one person is really totally responsible for a great deal.
- bigmattystyles 7y agoI know it’s easier said than done but a good system should recognize and mitigate those personalities.
- MR4D 7y agoMakes it impressive how SpaceX can iterate so fast on designs and yet have few of these types of errors. It seems they understand their failures before they happen.
- simonh 7y agoI don't think that's warranted, SpaceX has lost several vehicles and missions to theoretically avoidable mistakes.