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Re:Google Pixel 6 still freezes when calling Emergency Services by IncandescentGas on Sunday September 04, 2022 @01:28PM (#32715435)
Why should software companies, developers, product managers and executives remain immune from consequences of willful negligence, when that negligence results in real harm?

In college I took an Engineering Ethics class, where we studied engineering mistakes resulting in deaths, and learned about the investigation and prosecution of the engineers involved when there was negligence.

The Hyatt Regency walkway collapse in particular will always stay with me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyatt_Regency_walkway_collapse.

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Re:Google Pixel 6 still freezes when calling Emergency Services by ok_dad on Sunday September 04, 2022 @04:18PM (#32717266)
I especially like the Therac-25 [0] as a good example for software engineers. A literal concurrency bug between the UI and radiation emitter caused at least 6 people to get massive overdoses of radiation. Think about that next time you're using a multi-thread/multi-process library!

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25

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