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by eternityforest 1599 days ago
That means we need to take a very close look at whether "Real programmers" are actually anyone to emulate.

Programming culture has almost football field level of "No time for weakness" attitude.

If I see a possible failure mode of a system, and bring it up, someone's going to tell me to stop being a clicky click windows idiot and learn to be careful.

Trying to prevent human error in software isn't seen as a priority so nobody does it. They are concerned with the most reliable code rather than the most reli4 code-user-hardware-task-schedule-conditions system.

Programmers need to accept software fixes for human and hardware failures. It's a lot easier to add a confirmation dialog than it is to somehow become 100% reliable at not clicking the wrong thing.