Interesting Links for 30-06-2019

[andrewducker]

Boeing's 737 Max Software Outsourced to $9-an-Hour Engineers

(tags:engineering design software outsourcing airplanes )

The Conservatives are suffering entryism from Brexit extremists

(tags:UK Europe conservatives doom )

Stonewall was not the start - it took a decade of resistance to reach that point

(tags:lgbt transgender history protests viaLilysea )

Babylon 5 Is the Greatest, Most Terrible SF Series

(tags:tv Babylon5 review )

Are the Brits at it again?

(tags:UK funny )

Researchers model how octopus arms make decisions (and talk to each other without informing the brain)

(tags:octopus communication nerves neuroscience )

Britain: Ruined since the 5th century

(tags:history uk )

Scotland's only breast milk bank is looking for volunteers

(tags:milk breastfeeding scotland )

German far-right group used police data to compile death list

(tags:fascism police germany )

Stonewall's CEO Reveals Why She Decided To Fight For Transgender Rights

(tags:Transgender LGBT uk )

Have some relationship advice

Some great comments too
(tags:relationships advice )

The computer games industry is renowned for terrible jobs. This is worst than most

(tags:Jobs games OhForFucksSake )

Three Halflings in a Trenchcoat: a homebrew fighter class for D&D

(tags:dungeonsanddragons funny )

Ray Harryhausen | Titan of Cinema | National Galleries of Scotland (next year)

(tags:scotland specialeffects movies )

How tea killed the fairies

(tags:tea myths )

UK to deport aspiring astrophysicist, 23, to Pakistan where she faces death or forced marriage to cousin

(tags:UK pakistan OhForFucksSake )

100% renewable energy without blackouts (by 2050)

(tags:renewables electricity thefuture )

Comments

Re: Boeing's 737 Max Software Outsourced to $9-an-Hour Engineers

[nancylebov]

There's a book called To Engineer is Human with the theory that new tech tends to be over-engineered, and as time goes on, people prune back on what they think is excessive caution until something goes badly wrong.

Re: Boeing's 737 Max Software Outsourced to $9-an-Hour Engineers

[jack]

Ouch, that sounds plausible. But in this case I'd expect something like, "after much review, regulations were relaxed when it was decided that they were too conservative" or something, like happened with banking regulations. I don't know if that happened and just wasn't clear from the summary I read, or things followed a different path.

Re: Boeing's 737 Max Software Outsourced to $9-an-Hour Engineers

[andrewducker]

Normalisation of deviance.

There's a lot of it about.

https://danluu.com/wat/