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Ironically it seems people as well as society as a whole fails to account that a zillion times inconvenience is death by a thousand cuts. This includes everyone
by lloeki 7y ago
Ironically it seems people as well as society as a whole fails to account that a zillion times inconvenience is death by a thousand cuts. This includes everyone writing code.
Goddammit when you take a long, hard look, objectively (like really) stepping back for a moment, every piece of software (and hardware to some extent as the line between both is getting blurry) around us is just a huge pile of Rube Goldberg machinery that barely happens to work on the happy path.
This process is not entirely unlike global warming and similar large scale psychological risk assessment failures.
- sitkack 7y agoAnd each individual piece might not be mission critical, but some mission critical component of the system relies on some non-mission critical piece of software or service. The more I look at how fragile all human created systems are, I realize that humanity will perish with the equivalent of tripping over its shoelaces. Own goal!