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> Fast gigabit internet is cheap and everywhere Check your privilidge! Generally our industry is phemomenally irresponsible, there will be some life-critical

> Fast gigabit internet is cheap and everywhere Check your privilidge! Generally our industry is phemomenally irresponsible, there will be some life-critical service that gets built with this attitude, and no-one will realise untill some shit hits the fan - whether it's a power cut or an internet cable being cut but a digger or the AWS datacenter burning down - and then people will die.

jacquesm 4y ago
I think we're already there. A hospital that loses it's internet connection would have a hard time functioning and depending on the length of the outage it may very well cause people to die. Between scheduling, medication conflicts, diagnostic tools, EPD exchange, cloud connected medical gear and so on this is no longer a theoretical thing.
scottlamb 4y ago
> > Fast gigabit internet is cheap and everywhere > Check your privilidge! Umm, what? This is part of "the ultimate developer experience wishlist for the average rich-country developer in 2030", not a statement expected to be universally true in 2022. I think it's wildly overoptimistic, but "check your privilege" doesn't seem like an appropriate response to optimism. > Generally our industry is phemomenally irresponsible, there will be some life-critical service that gets built with this attitude, and no-one will realise untill some shit hits the fan - whether it's a power cut or an internet cable being cut but a digger or the AWS datacenter burning down - and then people will die. The "average rich-country developer" doesn't build life-critical services. If someone extends the author's techniques to a domain where they're inappropriate, that's on them.
- ClumsyPilot 4y ago
  > Umm, what? This is part of "the ultimate developer experience wishlist for the average rich-country developer in 2030", There is a newbuild going up near me where the best connection speed is ADSL. I am willing to bet my house some parts of the country won't have reliable 100mb/s by 2040.

jacquesm 4y ago

I think we're already there. A hospital that loses it's internet connection would have a hard time functioning and depending on the length of the outage it may very well cause people to die. Between scheduling, medication conflicts, diagnostic tools, EPD exchange, cloud connected medical gear and so on this is no longer a theoretical thing.

scottlamb 4y ago

> > Fast gigabit internet is cheap and everywhere > Check your privilidge! Umm, what? This is part of "the ultimate developer experience wishlist for the average rich-country developer in 2030", not a statement expected to be universally true in 2022. I think it's wildly overoptimistic, but "check your privilege" doesn't seem like an appropriate response to optimism. > Generally our industry is phemomenally irresponsible, there will be some life-critical service that gets built with this attitude, and no-one will realise untill some shit hits the fan - whether it's a power cut or an internet cable being cut but a digger or the AWS datacenter burning down - and then people will die. The "average rich-country developer" doesn't build life-critical services. If someone extends the author's techniques to a domain where they're inappropriate, that's on them.

ClumsyPilot 4y ago
> Umm, what? This is part of "the ultimate developer experience wishlist for the average rich-country developer in 2030", There is a newbuild going up near me where the best connection speed is ADSL. I am willing to bet my house some parts of the country won't have reliable 100mb/s by 2040.