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Re:What it feels like when Rust saves your bacon by sitkack on Friday June 24, 2022 @12:36PM (#31865183)
This assumes that each person is responsible for their own safety. But you have no control over the other guy that puts people at risk. By mocking it, maybe we can prevent this form of argumentation earlier?

Hopefully in 20 years or less we will see unsafe code in the same way we view leaded gas, cigarettes and CO2. The other thing I realized in the last couple years is that eventually, everything becomes safety critical to someone at some point. That if you think you have to just protect this one system but that others can fail, is flawed on large scales. You can't tractably realize the failure graph, and nor can you prevent a seemingly innocuous thing from being used in a critical way.

The pandemic was a great lens into how human resilience kept flawed systems functioning in a way that few realized were flawed. The pharmacies in my area are still recovering only to have their problem exacerbated by more rigid controls that prevent local autonomy from making the system resilient. In this particular case, automation has made a problem worse by preventing humans from doing the little local silent repairs that they were previously doing.

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