Comment on Large Boeing Satellite Suddenly Explodes Into Pieces

0x0@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• billiam0202@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Hmm, sounds like Boeing needs to fire more engineers.

  And increase C-level compensation, of course.

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  • Atropos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    There really is no other option.

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    • mindaika@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Just gonna throw this idea out there:

      What if they hired a bunch of engineers who graduated from sketchy, unaccredited colleges in foreign countries and paid them half as much much?

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      • freeman@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Is this like when Americans blamed Pakistani coders for B737/MCAS debacle only to be proven they implemented Boeing’s (fatally flawed) specifications to the letter?

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      • yeather@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Then we can give bigger bonuses! What a genius idea.

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    • YourAvgMortal@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Of course there is! They could spend more money in PR campaigns and ~bribes~ lobbying

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      • Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        You need double tides tildes for the cross out text to work

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  • this_1_is_mine@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I don’t know this smells of some pencil Pusher looking at an engineer going “can you bring the cost of that rubber o-ring down 13 cents”… “I know you were looking for a specific type of seal but I got this huge assortment pack right here from my local temu…”

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  • HighlyRegardedArtist@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And do some more stock buybacks and raise dividends, of course.

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  • Vanth@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Well, it is public knowledge that layoffs and furloughs are happening, so sadly, you’re not wrong.

    And they somehow enticed Kelly Ortberg out of retirement to take over as CEO. There’s the hella juicy c-suite compensation package you talked about. He was already riding golden after he maneuvered that Rockwell Collins sale/merger/whatever.

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  • TechnologyChef@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Exactly why I wonder where our business school ethics go when it seems to me that value is only placed on what can be tied to everyone’s income and profit being the ‘sole’ provider for it, and any Engineer’s ethics being a nice thing for their own time. What would happen if we switch it up to Engineers being in charge who actually learn to make the product and the business side being the client of it rather than the other way around? Could the world be a better place? This doesn’t mean every engineer or either group as a monolith is good or bad. Just that maybe in economics we can see who may value externalities even in capitalism as Adam Smith seemed to promote over just profit.

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• jabathekek@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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• ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Their first mistake was building on the BeamNG platform.

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• piskertariot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Selective quoting is basically lying.

  The first, dubbed IS-29e, failed due to a propulsion system fuel leak. Intelsat declared the satellite a total loss in April 2019, later attributing it to either a micrometeoroid strike or solar weather activity.

  With the context of the quote, I"m curious what the pattern you’ve identified is.

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