Cheating Is All You Need

Re:Cheating Is All You Need by ThrowawayTestr on Thursday March 23, 2023 @02:07PM (#35278891)

If there isn't a possibility of someone dying if you make a mistake it isn't engineering.

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Re:Cheating Is All You Need by linguae on Thursday March 23, 2023 @02:49PM (#35279512)

Software used in medical devices, airplanes, and other applications where mistakes can lead to death does exist, and there has been tragic examples of software bugs killing people:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25

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Re:Cheating Is All You Need by ThrowawayTestr on Thursday March 23, 2023 @07:25PM (#35282957)

The people that write the software for such things are engineers.

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Re:Cheating Is All You Need by ruko on Thursday March 23, 2023 @03:14PM (#35279886)

why

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Re:Cheating Is All You Need by tester756 on Thursday March 23, 2023 @04:42PM (#35280988)

because?

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Re:Cheating Is All You Need by teaearlgraycold on Thursday March 23, 2023 @04:56PM (#35281150)

Welcome to the real world, where software can get people killed.

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Re:Cheating Is All You Need by ThrowawayTestr on Thursday March 23, 2023 @07:26PM (#35282970)

Have you ever written such software?

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Re:Cheating Is All You Need by inimino on Thursday March 23, 2023 @05:31PM (#35281576)

If you have full expectation and support from your superiors that you may shut down software development operations for ethical reasons based on your technical expertise, you might be a real engineer.

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