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Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by brigandish on Monday February 03, 2025 @08:19PM (#42926137)
Certainly, one might test the software by removing access to external systems to see what happens, whether things break, whether it complains… and certainly, that’s what’s happening.

Something I didn’t expect from this was to see the main complainers scramble to define what’s really important to them, thus implicitly justifying many of the cuts made.

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Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by disqard on Monday February 03, 2025 @10:51PM (#42927660)
You're right, as long as software is concerned, and customers being left without service is a non-issue.

Though if you do that with hardware, you might irreversibly break/short a component -- so you unplug, then figure out you actually needed that part, but plugging it back in now won't get the system working again.

I think "running a country" has more hardware-like characteristics than a pure software system.

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