it's almost universally impossible to get anyone to understand the (intended, not-boomer-bullshit) meaning of murphy's law at this company
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murphy's law is supposed to mean that if you make something easy to screw up, someone will screw it up because humans make mistakes
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this isn't fatalistic bullshit it's a fucking engineering philosophy and a really, really, really good one.
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so i say "we should apply this policy at a group level since it applies to more than 50% of the phones and will need to apply to new ones"
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i'm getting pushback. and i'm like, fine, as long as you're okay with the fact that when a new phone is added IT WILL NOT GET THIS POLICY
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are you okay with that? is it okay that we are going to do this wrong? if so, then i'll write this off and go do something productive.
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Nobody seems to get that you literally cannot prevent a problem with training and good intentions but you CAN with interlocks.
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Humans do not repeat the same action reliably. Machines do. Use them! Use machines! Use tools! You are a tool-using species! Asshole!
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@gravislizard Worth noting: the FDA, when analyzing THERAC-25, stated the need for interlocks and automated testing... in 19-frigging-82
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