Interesting Links for 02-09-2023
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andrewducker- 1. MPs call for magic mushrooms and psychedelic drugs to be downgraded (and consumption rooms to be trialled)
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- 2. Astoundingly, giving money to homeless people helps them.
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- 3. Musk's changes at Twitter helped spread Russian propaganda
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- 4. The algorithm that blew up Italy's school system
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- 5. Higher Intakes of Potassium and Magnesium, but Not Lower Sodium, Reduce Cardiovascular Risk
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- 6. US, UK: Please take a moment to contact your elected officials!
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- 7. Our Human Ancestors Very Nearly Went Extinct 900,000 Years Ago, Genetics Suggest, With A Population of less than 1,300
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- 8. The 'bank of family' is deeply unfair - and not the answer to the housing crisis
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- 9. Will post-Brexit food checks ever happen?
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- 10. Happy 20th birthday to Badger Badger Badger!
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Date: 2023-09-02 06:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-09-03 05:13 am (UTC)But - user acceptance testing should have caught it at the very latest point. My guess is there are no proper QA testers and no good communication with the business users that they also need commitment to test new software. Also likely no operations / support staff. It's one of the modern trends I thoroughly despise, this thinking that you don't need these professionals, and that clever enough ci/cd, DevOps, and alerting will be enough to keep a live system in the field ticking along and getting bugs reported.
(Sigh. Too many people only ever worked in small 'start ups' and to many otherwise clever CTOs/founders not knowing how it's done at scale, never having worked in large orgs or with hugely interconnected systems, that have real effects on people's lives)
They need to do a post mortem as to why it wasn't caught. And improve their processes so such things don't happen again.