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Does anyone feel safe riding in rockets? They're inherently dangerous. Although from the tenor of the letter, it seems they're more worried about "unsafe enviro
by Veen 5y ago
Does anyone feel safe riding in rockets? They're inherently dangerous. Although from the tenor of the letter, it seems they're more worried about "unsafe environments" created by sexist comments than exploding rockets.
- kamranjon 5y ago'It also said that in 2018, when someone new took over one particular team, the manager discovered that the team had documented "more than 1,000 problem reports" related to the company's rocket engines. None of those reports had been addressed, the letter said.' This is from the article you are responding to.
- JackFr 5y agoIf someone took a look at my production logs and counted the number of times 'WARN' appeared, it would not be a very effective measure of either the correctness or robustness of my software. Similarly without context "more than 1,000 problem reports" is worthless.
- barbazoo 5y agoAre you building rockets carrying people, though?
- xboxnolifes 5y agoAre you? And if not, where have you gotten the context surrounding the reports and their significance?
- barbazoo 5y agoOh no way would I work on something like that but that's not the point. If multiple sources working on something with significant inherent risk tell me that THEY don't think it's safe, that's a red flag.
- Veen 5y agoIt would be more convincing if those "multiple sources" weren't lots of anonymous people and one named individual—a non-technical head of employee communications—who was fired for cause by the company in question two years ago.
- barbazoo 5y agoFine, you go ride on their rockets, then :)
- xboxnolifes 5y agoIf they offered me a ride, for free, I would take it.
- pc86 5y agoI agree that it needs more context, but a "problem report" is clearly something much more pressing than a WARN console statement.
- ThePadawan 5y agoMaybe I'm naive, but isn't that the level of urgency a WARN would suggest? In my mind: DEBUG is irrelevant outside of debugging, INFO is useful (let's say for performance measurements), WARN suggests that something is off (even if it might not need immediate action) and ERROR means "something has completely failed here and needs immediate intervention".
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- Voloskaya 5y agoDangerosity isn't a boolean, there are many degrees to it. And the article you are commenting on, makes it very clear that former and current employees of BO think that corners are being cut and safety is compromised by the lack of personel to achieve the over ambitious goals of the leadership.
- kcplate 5y agoIf the engineer behind the rocket I am riding is a complete sexist asshole, but still the best person in the world at making rockets that carry people, I’m gonna give him a pass on his assholiness if I am sitting on top of it. Let’s not forget the father of The US space program was a Nazi. An actual Nazi and not the generic 2021 definition. An