That is a rational concern:

(TW - pool drains)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pool_suction-drain_injury

A year ago January I woke up in the hospital and a nurse comes in.

“Were you asleep about an hour ago?”

“Yeah, why?”

“Your heart stopped for eight seconds.”

“Um… ‘thank you’? I don’t know the correct response to that…”

Really, the only thing I was scared of was needles. Well, I’ve been poked and stabbed more times since 2018 than I can count. Another blood draw and IV last Thursday in fact.

Your perspective on fear and pain changes once you’ve been cracked open like a lobster and laced back up with metal like a ballet slipper.

Not much at this point. After having open heart surgery and having my heart stop a couple of times, I’m not really scared of much.

Before Spaceballs, contemporaneous with Star Wars, we had “Hardware Wars”:

https://youtu.be/WUDEUQMCyKE

Idiocracy

Reading Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar the first time. :)

Not Youtube, but on my streaming service there’s an America’s Test Kitchen channel and a “The Repair Shop” channel.

Largely software updates. You would not believe how old some of this stuff is.

The problem becomes each update is tied to multiple systems, so testing has to be done across the board for each update.

So it’s easy to go “Why are we running xxx from 2016?” but then you have test it everywhere and that’s why it’s almost 10 years out of date.

I can’t speak for other companies, but in mine we do have a single line item for Tech Debt. It gets IGNORED most of the time, but we do have it! ;)

Tech Debt. So many of these companies investing in AI are doing so at the expense of out dated, broken shit that AI will never address.

Room-mates with a Lebanese refugee for 7 years. Good guy, went to his wedding, he came to mine.