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Re:The Therac-25 Incident by pjmlp on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @09:06AM (#45039133)
Being a real Software Engineer, those that actually have the proper title, eventually with the final examination, means being able to deliver the best product within the set of given constraints.

Also, speaking out when the train is visibly going against a wall.

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Re:The Therac-25 Incident by ozim on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @11:53AM (#45041357)
You mean like those in the article:

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/08/27/us/alaska-f-35-crash-acci...

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Re:The Therac-25 Incident by pjmlp on Thursday August 28, 2025 @02:16AM (#45049012)
Yeah, and I bet responsabilities will be taken care of, unlike in most software projects.
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Re:The Therac-25 Incident by bobmcnamara on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @10:57AM (#45040598)
In my country those are a myth. We had it as a professional engineering classification for a while but I'm not sure if anyone ever completed it. They cancelled it several years ago.
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Re:The Therac-25 Incident by pjmlp on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @11:09AM (#45040802)
And in US anyone can call themselves whatever they feel like.

If you want professional quality, we're the first line of actually making it happen, blaming others won't change anything.

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Re:The Therac-25 Incident by bobmcnamara on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @08:05PM (#45046787)
Turns out there could be up to 81 US professional software engineers!

https://ncees.org/ncees-discontinuing-pe-software-engineerin...

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