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> Imagine you're an intern watching someone like Jeff Dean give a live demo, and you think the presentation is proceeding in a way that is going to cause a majo
by khuey 5y ago
> Imagine you're an intern watching someone like Jeff Dean give a live demo, and you think the presentation is proceeding in a way that is going to cause a major outage.
It's more like you're Guido van Rossum watching Jeff Dean give a live demo, and the presentation is proceeding in a way that is going to kill you, Dean, and 200 random people from the audience.
- markdown 5y ago> and the presentation is proceeding in a way that is going to kill you, Dean, and 200 random people from the audience. Skipping a step here and there is rarely ever going to seem like it'll end in deaths of your and everyone else in the flight. "We've flown this same route 2000 times before and never had an issue. My Captain is as old as my father and has been flying all his life. The weather is great, we're a little late, and he's probably right, skipping this pre-flight checklist this time isn't going to do any harm."
- vishnugupta 5y agoI'm unable to follow your assertion so please help me understand this. > skipping this pre-flight checklist Does this happen? My only knowledge about piloting is checklists are considered sacrosanct. Wouldn't skipping a checklist raise a red-flag?
- markdown 5y agoYes, considered sacrosanct. However, my point was that if you skipped one, it's not a certainty that it would result in death. So if a captain said they should skip a checklist, the first officer might defer to their judgement and not oppose that decision. I was responding to a comment where it was implied that the decision was a definite life-and-death decision.