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Re:What Elon Musk Should Learn from the Thailand Cave Rescue by appleiigs on Sunday July 15, 2018 @08:24PM (#17537885)
A great article. It's like Elon has forgotten about all the bugs and edge cases he has seen at his companies. Successful software is based on iterations (eg. Chrome version 67.03396.99).

The safety culture says procedures are "written in blood", which is effectively previous iterations with people's lives. Elon seems too eager to put the Thai lives on the line in version 1.0.

Re:What Elon Musk Should Learn from the Thailand Cave Rescue by 67_45 on Sunday July 15, 2018 @09:07PM (#17538048)
How is any of that relevant when the task has never been done before and there is a deadline? They iterated as much as they could given the deadline, past which the kids would die anyway? Fuzzy thinks ng is abound in this topic.
Re:What Elon Musk Should Learn from the Thailand Cave Rescue by appleiigs on Sunday July 15, 2018 @10:43PM (#17538406)
Elon has never done anything like it before, but cave diving rescuers/experts and navy do have their skills from experience.
Re:What Elon Musk Should Learn from the Thailand Cave Rescue by 67_45 on Monday July 16, 2018 @12:13AM (#17538727)
Actually this rescue was unprecedented from what I've read.
Re:What Elon Musk Should Learn from the Thailand Cave Rescue by jacobush on Monday July 16, 2018 @02:18AM (#17539159)
I was going to downvote but the comment is already gray.

Not so unprecedented so as to not involve cave divers and SEAL, no?

It's not like they sent in expert accountants or race drivers to rescue those children. Do you think team Musk or team Divers were the most fit for that mission?

Re:What Elon Musk Should Learn from the Thailand Cave Rescue by 67_45 on Monday July 16, 2018 @02:49AM (#17539254)
You are confusing yourself. I never spoke about who the most qualified person was for any task whatsoever. That has nothing to do with anything because I don't really think it's in contention who knows more about cave diving. I simply said that rescuing small weak boys who have zero diving experience from miles of submerged cave is basically something that has happened very seldomly. And I am correct.

I said that in relation to my claim that musk wasn't passing up tried and true methods because there were none because this never happens. If you actually have a substantive remark on any of that please let me know.