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   Iska (iska@catposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2024 23:19:49 JST Iska

   The world would be a much better place if industrial/professional software was taken to the same standards as hardware.
   
   Your steel is 1mm too thick? 0.5% impure? You're getting sued and trust broken
   Your software's unstable? An indian will be sent to their office or phone while getting blamed for not getting enough safety nets

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     Lina Inver?e (lina@eientei.org)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2024 23:19:48 JST Lina Inver?e

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     @iska the problem is that software is basically esoteric bullshit to an average person, it's much harder to figure out because it's practically demonologist incantations that rely on so many random things from library versions to phases of the moon
     steel? it's basically just physics and chemistry along with some specialized learnings into material resistances and shit, it obeys by God's rules, unlike software
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2024 23:22:06 JST 翠星石

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     @iska Not really?
     
     Many businesses have gotten away with steel being 1mm too thick or 0.5% too impure.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 22-Jul-2024 00:46:22 JST 翠星石

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     @Pawlicker Yes, the other businesses usually just have to cope and seethe and either scrape the metal shavings out, or if the engine is buggered, throw it out and outsource a 3rd party to grind down the metal to the correct length so the remaining engines work (or do it internally if they have the tooling).
     
     Court cases and the likes can take months or years, while it often takes a few weeks at most and less expenses to just get the material shipped off to a 3rd party to grind it to the correct size, or even change the design to suit.
     
     Although, typically the business will go to another metal supplier who is known for not scamming - unlike in computing where businesses keep going back to microsoft no matter how many times they get scammed.
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     PC-9801 Enjoyer (pawlicker@bae.st)'s status on Monday, 22-Jul-2024 00:46:23 JST PC-9801 Enjoyer

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     • 翠星石
     @Suiseiseki @iska whoops your engine has metal shavings in it