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Breaking critical systems like SNAP, Medicare/Medicaid, weather forecasting and many many many other systems that people literally depend on for their being ali
by t-writescode 2y ago
Breaking critical systems like SNAP, Medicare/Medicaid, weather forecasting and many many many other systems that people literally depend on for their being alive *kills* people.
Programmers that work on critical systems are actively trained to take into consideration every contingency to not increase the death rate of their systems, to the best of their abilities.
Aggressive, comprehensive and non-robust axing of systems when literal lives are on the line - especially when it's government systems and those lines maintain any semblance of some people's ability to literally be alive - touch and impact more lives than any single Boeing plane or NASA space shuttle's crash. They are even more critical than those systems - though not as flashy when they fail.
- grandempire 2y agoThis is a nerd fantasy where you imagine your skills and expertise are what keep society turning. Computer problems are fixable, and they are secondary, and there are many people and services who can be hired to fix them.
- t-writescode 2y agoWhat are you on about? The systems I'm referring to are human systems with lots of humans doing human things. Cutting funding, removing departments, those are removing the humans doing human things to solve human problems.
- grandempire 2y agoThis is what I replied to in my comment above: > Two things can be bad at once. The IT consulting can be too expensive. Cutting it all at once with no other plan can have disastrous consequences.