> And PHB's all know that picking up nickles in front of the steamroller is how you get to the C-suite.
Blaming it on PHB's is a mistake. There were no engineering classes in my degree program about failsafe design. I've known too many engineers who were insulted by my insinuations that their design had unacceptable failure modes. They thought they could write software that couldn't possibly fail. They'd also tell me that they could safely recover and continue executing a crashed program.
This is why I never, ever trust software switches to disable a microphone, software switches that disable disk writes, etc. The world is full of software bugs that enable overriding of their soft protections.
BTW, this is why airliners, despite their advanced computerized cockpit, still have an old fashioned turn-and-bank indicator that is independent of all that software.
Blaming it on PHB's is a mistake. There were no engineering classes in my degree program about failsafe design. I've known too many engineers who were insulted by my insinuations that their design had unacceptable failure modes. They thought they could write software that couldn't possibly fail. They'd also tell me that they could safely recover and continue executing a crashed program.
This is why I never, ever trust software switches to disable a microphone, software switches that disable disk writes, etc. The world is full of software bugs that enable overriding of their soft protections.
BTW, this is why airliners, despite their advanced computerized cockpit, still have an old fashioned turn-and-bank indicator that is independent of all that software.