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Re:SpaceX launches rescue mission for 2 NASA astronauts who ... by hindsightbias on Sunday September 29, 2024 @12:37AM (#41684955)
They build a plane with 15M parts every single day. Their worst engineer is better than 99% of those on HN.
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Re:SpaceX launches rescue mission for 2 NASA astronauts who ... by fastball on Sunday September 29, 2024 @03:22AM (#41685505)
Their worst engineers are the ones responsible for shipping planes + systems that have resulted in the deaths of hundreds of people.

I don't think I'm a fantastic engineer, but I'm certainly doing better than those people when considering the metric of "how many people has my software killed".

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Re:SpaceX launches rescue mission for 2 NASA astronauts who ... by pferde on Sunday September 29, 2024 @04:51AM (#41685882)
You need to add a metric of "how many people can my software kill if it misbehaves", otherwise your point is moot.
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Re:SpaceX launches rescue mission for 2 NASA astronauts who ... by fastball on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @08:12AM (#41707355)
Fair point, but I don't think that makes it moot. If you work on software that can kill people, the responsibility is on you to make sure that it doesn't. If you can't, you should self-select out of working on that type of software.
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Re:SpaceX launches rescue mission for 2 NASA astronauts who ... by uaas on Sunday September 29, 2024 @03:33AM (#41685554)
These are big words.
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