I mean, I'm all for giving jobs to humans and all, but isn't monitoring a bunch of numbers and sending an alert when they go wrong one of the few things computers are actually objectively better at than humans are?

Edit: Holy crap people. I understand that they're probably not there for that purpose. That was the entire point I was trying to make. You don't ALL need to point out the obvious to me.

[–] gregorum@lemm.ee 8 points 8 months ago

It’s because of something actually does go wrong, it might take all of them to deal with the issue and the fallout

[–] Bezier@suppo.fi 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I would assume that these people are there mainly because they know what to do if something goes wrong, instead of sitting there for easily automatable tasks.

[–] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I also have to assume they probably do rotations, like watch/guard duty in the military, of control room and more active work, or it would get suuuuper boring real fast. Plus their skills would get rusty if nothing ever happened.

But maybe I’m overly optimistic.

[–] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 1 points 8 months ago

Watching the same screen show the same shit all day long would be boring as hell.

[–] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 2 points 8 months ago

Aside from redundancy being an important safety thing, I'd guess they also have a pretty good idea what to do if something goes wrong.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.ca 0 points 8 months ago

I think the computers do send the alert, via the screen to those people who then need to act on it.