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Lockesmith | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I've always hated the term. Engineering implies that if you fuck up, people will die. If developers fuck up, people may get mildly inconvenienced.
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utxo the webmaster 🧑‍💻 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Lots of software falls into that category too. If software on the airplane fucks up...
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Lockesmith | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Outside of fully autonomous systems like Bitcoin though, there is always (I can't think of a situation that there's not) a human to accompany the software in the case of such a malfunction. In which case we're back to human is mildly inconvenienced and if he fucks up, everyone dies.
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Lockesmith | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Though, I do see your point. There is certainly a gray area to be explored.
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