a major reason that software is always failing for ridiculous reasons is that learning to analyze complex systems for their failure modes is a skill you can't just turn off in real life and therefore is soul crushing
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there's a reason that fictional characters with special abilities in analyzing things for their failure modes (Mace Windu, Karnak of the Inhumans) are deeply fucked up people
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In Mace Windu's case, it doesn't help that _Shatterpoint_ was written by Matthew Stover.
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should i know Matthew Stover from a hole in the ground
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He wrote a couple of SW novels--Traitor (which was...unlike the rest of the NJO), Shatterpoint, the RotS novelization.
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Solo work is philosophically...weird. And his thoughts on moral ambiguity always have me squinting a bit: https://www.sfsite.com/04a/mws101.htm
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gotcha. yeah, all i know him from is Shatterpoint
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