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  • hesitation because they’re worried about “incriminating” themselves

    This is a hard one. Because this is not about engineers, but their nature as people.

    An anecdote: A lawyer, once casually asked me - if I were to design a building (this was hypothetical, because I am not a civil engineer) and after construction, was to realise some mistake that would cost lives, would I go on to tell them about it - and his tone seemed like he considered it common sense that I won’t report it.
    So, at least in his mind, it is common sense that people hide their mistakes.

    technical details

    I am a kind of person that doesn’t know that people find it difficult to understand concepts out of their domain (mostly because I understand most, well explained stuff, irrespective of domain) and if someone were to ask me about my work, I would easily wander into the details. After a few years of industry experience, realising that to not be the case, I tend to be more abstract.

    If you want the engineers to tell you more in depth about the technical stuff, I’d suggest you to show them your aptitude to understand their stuff and you will see them going more into detail of it. I had a manager (kind of), who was also an engineer and used Linux on a regular basis. I found it easy to discuss more in depth regarding solutions (the product was using Linux too) due to his familiarity.






  • Oh no, you’re getting it wrong.
    I only found the person responsible for giving me the feeling of helplessness and made them helpless.

    The other people’s lives?
    Well, I just pulled of the lever, so now nobody has the opportunity to make that choice, hence no dilemma. And who got run over in the end, I didn’t check. I didn’t know whether or not the direction got changed when I was breaking off the lever. Also, I didn’t really stop the train either, so I only stopped the dilemma from happening. I didn’t save any ppl.