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Re:What is negative engineering? by Swizec on Monday December 12, 2022 @11:00AM (#33956123)
Galloping Gertie haunts civil engineer’s nightmares.

Hyatt Regency walkways too.

Apollo 1.

Plenty of examples, actually. All engineering fields have their share of catastrophic failures. For better or worse, that’s how we learn.

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Re:What is negative engineering? by MrJohz on Monday December 12, 2022 @03:25PM (#33959756)
Different problems also have different scales. The road that they've repaved outside my house has had far less scrutiny than the new bridge they've built down the road. And NASA have very different coding guidelines to Shopify.
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