A lot of regulations are also for consumer or user protection - not just for the first owner, but later owners too. Substandard waterproofing may not be dangerous, but it does bankrupt people and ruin lives.
The only time theoretical modelling happens in most civil engineers careers is at university. Especially so with geotech/soil mechanics - it is the most inexact and variable/unpredictable area especially when water gets involved.
Structural steel would be the most predictable. Concrete and timber are in the middle somewhere.
Absolutely. It's often more calculated than that though. The only way (by design) to succeed in the regime is through corruption - you're giving the leader the rope to hang you with if you ever fall out of favor.
"Run anywhere" was getting pretty stretched long before it was killed, Linux support was orphaned, old, buggy, vulnerable and hard to run in contemporary browsers.
I was stoked to watch Apple nail the coffin shut, and see it consigned to history along with Java applets.
I don't know of any other term in tech that people experience in so many different often contradictory ways that causes people to talk past each other because they're all talking about different things or been places that work so differently.
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