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>>belter+(OP)
Every time I read about space engineering, I'm amazed by how contingencies have contingencies. It's so much careful planning and rigor compared to my world. I can always re-compile, re-deploy and regularly realize that my job is not life or death.

>>notyou+Bc1
Honestly, I'd say most engineering is like that outside of the software world. In the classic engineering disciplines with actual licensures at the end of the pipeline, the responsibility and ethics of this are ingrained into students from day 1. (Budget and importance of the application doesn't always allow for the indulgence of this though, at least to a point.)

This type of thinking also follows from decades of experience.

For some reason the software engineering world largely abandoned esteem and respect for all of the above.

>>Engine+pg1
Errors in software rarely ever matter and even when they do, can usually be trivially corrected.

>>throwa+zB1
Honestly I can't imagine someone who hasn't been living under a rock for the last half century could say this. Just one example: Knight Capitol was the largest trader in U.S. equities, with a market share of 17.3% on NYSE and 16.9% on NASDAQ in 2012, right up until August 1, 2012, when it lost $460 million and 75% of its equity value because of a software error. What was left of it was acquired in December of that year.