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In the civil engineering world, at least in Europe, the lead engineer would sign papers that would put him as liable if a bridge or a building structure collapses on its own. The civil engineers face literal prison time if they make a sloppy work.

In the software engineering world, we have TOSs that deny any liability if the software fails. Why?

It boils my blood to think that the heads of CrowdStrike would maybe get a slap on the wrist and everything will slowly continue as usual as the machines will get fixed.

People died for this bug.

I guess it's caused by the "brogrammer" culture of Silicon Valley, where you would get hazed if you dared using a GUI-based tool. Also, being more focused on open-sourcing their tools (because other companies do not open source them, therefore being un-cool), which begets a "simpler" and "engineeristic" approach to UX, which do not need UI experts and designers.

If everyone would reason like you, do you think Google won't raise premium prices even more, or put ads for "lesser" premium users, a-la Netflix base subscription?

Plot twist: the IAM policy that got fucked up was the one giving access to Q

Funnily, isn't it what happens with "disruptor" companies like Uber and Airbnb? first they revolutionize the taxi/hotel market, then they slowly become what they were supposed to revolutionize

As someone who just this year started to keep track of the money across the months, I can say that you get some sort of high when you get close to payday and you see the line going up.

If that would be the case, won't there then be the risk of creating a short-circuit which would benefit the actual money launderers/criminals?

Say, I have 3 millions somehow deposited in the $bank_where_i_put_my_shady_money, I want to take/move the money, but doing so will raise some eyebrows, so I deliberately try to debank myself so that I can get all my money cash OR move it to $partner_bank

rly.omg.lol is still available though (as of now :p)

But many many other people won't, or can't.

And there will be companies offering the product for free in order to grab that market share and steal users from the paying ones.

That's how the internet companies strived since ~1998

Money is also nice

Wow. Just...wow. Some things in the article just seemed right up satire;

the blonde dressed-up lawyer who left her job pursuing [buzzword]-[buzzword]ing ?

the drunk guy who now has a meaning in life by obtaining the latest [buzzword] ?

the crowd cheering crazy at the mention of the [buzzword] ?

it all seems too... weird and alien to me; I'm not a boomer, but I'm almost 40; I've cheered at the age of digitalization and I was publicly derided on my views of the internet in the mid-90s.

Now... is this how older people felt in the 80s-90s, when faced with news about the digital era? or the idea that internet will replace this-and-that?

How similar is this to the late-90s dot-com craze? I bet my ass off that at the time they had early-adopter parties like the one in the article.

1910s had the spanish flu, we have (had??) the COVID-19, so...yep

I hate being pedantic, but before the 1600 anybody with some education knew already that the earth was round (see: Columbus, Magellan).

Funnily enough, the "flat earthers" of that time were the ones spreading the idea that the Earth was moving :D (see: Galileo)