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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
I did an engineering degree but I have to say, the ethics imparted on me were basically “be diligent and don’t build anything that harms people by accident” which… really ought to be, like, table stakes for living in society, right?

>>bee_ri+RR1
It ought to be but it's not. Plenty of sociopaths out there who think nothing of poisoning children with heavy metals in toys if it's cheaper. How many businesses neglected software system security, only to compromise the personal information of thousands, millions of people? It's not like there are consequences. As far as I know, no one was ever arrested.