• TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    Patently absurd. Technology often fails regardless of what you do. Inviting that failure would be negligence and should be illegal.

    The one thing I know for sure about any engineer is that we are intimately familiar with the concept of things failing when it’s least convenient.

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      We’ve got the Lemmy/Reddit worldview out in force. We should shut down vital infrastructure, risking life safety of many, for a cat. I say this loving cats: that’s silly.

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        Yeah, I knew when I commented it might get some backlash, but the strength of it is somewhat depressing. Isn’t Lemmy supposed to be mostly rational intelligent people?

        I guess it just tells us how commonplace it is for people to declare a risk either worth it or non-existent without a fucking clue about the actual risk they are talking about.

        In any case, thank you for demonstrating that there are still some sane people left out there.