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by nok22kon 1 day ago
programming is also solving problems

in medicine they use all kinds of drugs which they don't really understand how they work. anesthetics is a great example

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By necessity perhaps, but they are desperate to find out why they work so doctors can kill less people. Almost half a million people die each year from medical errors in the USA.

Now they have a valid excuse that the human body is incredibly complex and not yet understood. We don’t have that excuse, because we build all of our software from the ground up. If we don’t understand it, that is our fault.