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Re:The U.S. Air Force just admitted the F-35 stealth fighter... by wycy on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @03:52PM (#26255698)
I would've thought your first 2 items there would help increase the use of engineering judgement by reducing pitfalls previous generations encountered. Your third item is definitely a significant factor.

It's not so much that I yearn for the era of engineering judgement so much as I yearn for refocusing on work that's important. Not every little decision needs to written up in professional report, circulated around through multiple drafts, signed off by 4-5 people, briefed out in slide deck form, then never read again.

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Re:The U.S. Air Force just admitted the F-35 stealth fighter... by InitialLastName on Thursday February 25, 2021 @06:56PM (#26269951)
That would be nice, but you just wait until the root cause analysis of a catastrophic failure gets traced to a backside that was inadequately obscured by "engineering judgement".
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Re:The U.S. Air Force just admitted the F-35 stealth fighter... by colineartheta on Thursday February 25, 2021 @10:29AM (#26263769)
Ok, boomer.
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