[swiley]

IMO there are some really interesting CSB investigations into oil refinery/industrial accidents caused by bad software design (overwhelming operators with alarms is a big one.) Lots of people on here could gain by watching them. I used to put them on to fall asleep at night.

[asdfman123]

Oil is so much bigger than just refineries and oil wells. There's the upstream industry, the downstream industry, services and exploration, research, financial sectors, etc. etc. etc. There's a whole fleet of office workers to support them, and a lot of data to manage.

[ThePadawan]

If we're thinking of the same YouTube channel, there are some excellent lessons to take away from those disaster investigations.

Now whenever I hear phrases like "we have to use the manual override most of the time" or "this alarm goes off all the time, it doesn't mean anything is broken", I am happy that the worst I can do is break a deployment, not explode an entire block.