• Pup Biru@aussie.zone
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    2 days ago

    anyone who designs a computer system without escape hatches when it’s wrong isn’t an engineer; they’re a fucking fraud

    the single most important thing to understand about software is that no matter what, it will fail… if there are no ways for the people-system to force it right, it’s an enormous liability

    • michaelmrose@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      A: There is no way that a computer system doesn’t have a way to dispose of warrants cases are dispositioned every single day. B: The actual fix absent the privileges to disposition the case would be to give the person a contant in the system and a card and tell arresting officers to call the number on the card. Confirm it and just not arrest based on a known false warrant.

      In the end people are the escape hatch they are expected to do the right thing not the computer. Nobody cares if they gave you a button for “do the right thing”