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michaelt ◴[27 Aug 25 08:19 UTC] No.45036843[source]▶

I'd be interested in knowing how many of y'all are being taught about this sort of thing in college ethics/safety/reliability classes.

I was taught about this in engineering school, as part of a general engineering course also covering things like bathtub reliability curves and how to calculate the number of redundant cooling pumps a nuclear power plant needs. But it's a long time since I was in college.

Is this sort of thing still taught to engineers and developers in college these days?

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1. BoxOfRain ◴[27 Aug 25 08:47 UTC] No.45036998[source]▶

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I was taught about it in university as a computer science undergrad, thought about it often since I ended up working in medtech.

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