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   eribosot (eribosot@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 10-Nov-2024 01:26:16 JST eribosot

   I heard this term mentioned by one of the hosts of the excellent "If Books Could Kill" podcast (when talking about Sam Bankman-Fried, who's like the quintessential case of this), and my god does it clearly define something I've been needing a term for since forever. This phenomenon explains like half of what's wrong with the world today.

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     Large Format Projectionist (benhm3@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 10-Nov-2024 05:54:17 JST Large Format Projectionist

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     @eribosot

     My boss honestly thought he could fix anything.

     I told him about the shuttle fueling shutoff problem that lead NASA to write the first failure-space analysis application SAFE.

     He was utterly unaware of failure-space as a science.

     The front side of Dunning-Kruger is only exceeded in societal terribleness by the back-side’s appearance to those on the front.

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     Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈 (lazarou@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 10-Nov-2024 05:58:18 JST Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈

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     @eribosot feel like this could be one of those 'Fermi Paradox' deals, a Great Filter

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     Jake Janey (phlogiston1@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 10-Nov-2024 10:02:01 JST Jake Janey

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     @eribosot OMG…this is exactly what happens when an engineer/techbro looks at biology and drug discovery. “It’s just another system we can mathematically model and have like 20 new drugs a year”

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     Dave Rahardja (drahardja@sfba.social)'s status on Sunday, 10-Nov-2024 18:48:01 JST Dave Rahardja

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     @eribosot Engineers have long complained about the “MBA syndrome”—the idea that an MBA can solve any problem by applying textbook business principles, which usually destroys any semblance of craftsmanship, fun, or quality-of-life differentiators in their products, and ruins company morale. Little do they (we) know that we have the same blind spot.

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     CaveDave (engravecavedave@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 10-Nov-2024 19:33:08 JST CaveDave

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     @eribosot funny thing is engineers aren't even THAT good at the mathematics part. At least they tend to the subject of many jokes by mathematicians and physicists.

     Not saying physicists also don't suffer from this problem, unfortunately they do. But my god, do engineers really try to troubleshoot EVERYTHING in such a dumb manner.

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     eribosot (eribosot@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 20:33:30 JST eribosot

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     • Supertapani

     @Supertapani Well, not if you're an uneducated peasant, they're not. /s

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     Supertapani (supertapani@mastodontti.fi)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 20:33:32 JST Supertapani

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     @eribosot HTML, CSS and Javascript are not communication skills 🤔

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     Twirrim (twirrim@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 11:04:42 JST Twirrim

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     @eribosot years ago the software devs in Amazon used to complain about the elevators. Eventually Amazon got so tired of it they somehow arranged with the elevator company to come on-site for a hackathon weekend, during which devs would attempt to produce a more optimal algorithm. Unsurprisingly they failed. Turns out that elevator companies know what they're doing.

     At least it finally got the devs to shut up about the damn elevators.

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     Rachel Rawlings (linuxandyarn@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 14:00:15 JST Rachel Rawlings

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     @eribosot Meeting Silicon Valley libertarians who were tabling outside the Mountain View municipal building convinced me that engineers and politics should be kept apart.

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     eribosot (eribosot@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 18:01:01 JST eribosot

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     • Twirrim

     @Twirrim I'm going to store this anecdote away for future reference. Someone once told me that elevator algorithms are surprisingly difficult. It's exactly the kind of problem that looks simple on a surface level, but gets more complex as you dive into the details.

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     eribosot (eribosot@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 22-Nov-2024 01:53:10 JST eribosot

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     @frogzone You're reminding me of my favorite entry in the Jargon File aka the Hacker's Dictionary:

     recursion: n. See recursion.

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     frogzone@wizard.casa's status on Friday, 22-Nov-2024 01:53:11 JST frogzone

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     @eribosot i think this can happen to anyone who learns #recursion and recursive methods also, you realize u can solve things by doing lots and lots of reading about it but you may also die before u finish.