You'll probably find similar issues at any large organization. Richard Feynman was noted for saying the triumph of Apollo was not technical but rather managerial.
Two people died while I was there (industrial accident) back in the 80's when it was solely a Berkeley contract. IIRC, White Sands was the private operator and LA was the University operated arms.
The valedictorian from my engineering college was homeschooled through grade school and a friend of my college roommate. He was a very well adjusted person.
I have a close friend who homeschools his kid in addition to sending him to school. Poor kid, but ranked #1 at the school in addition to skipping a grade and fluently in two languages. They are also the absolute poorest (as in dirt, not relative) people I know.
The goals of of Enlightenment thinkers were liberty, progress, reason, tolerance, fraternity, and ending the abuses of the church and state.
The Enlightenment was followed by the opposing intellectual movement Romanticism. Romanticism was social and political reaction to norms of the Age of Enlightenment, and the scientific rationalization of nature.
From wikipedia
In contrast to the usually very social art of the Enlightenment, Romantics were distrustful of the human world, and tended to believe that a close connection with nature was mentally and morally healthy.
In the 90's, I was working for a company who was starting to build the embedded processor parts necessary to build products like this. During one of our weekly rahrah go company staff meetings, my manager gave what seemed like a very forced untypical presentation as to where we were going and why the things we were working on were important. Normally she'd just go over stats and see who had any problems or roadblock, but this time she gave a presentation resembling the old at&t you will adds.
One of the future areas the company hoped to be in was pervasive computing where every device in your house would have one of our processors and they'd all be talking to one another. I made the comment that it al seemed rather Orwellinan at which point she kinda laughed muttering yeah and finished the remaining 8 slides in as many seconds.
My parent's neighbors do it for free, no 5k$ wifi enabled refrigerator required. They'd probably even go shopping in a bind if asked. When I was a kid, my parents would occasionally send me over to people's houses to check on them. They really seemed to like that and I'd have to listen to stories about WWII or beekeeping.
Yup. That's why you ave to write a lot of the software at the driver level.
I used to write software for a couple of the rt linux variants about 15 years ago. It's not that difficult for a large class of problems as there are many things that do not need to be rt, eg, memory allocations, hd or network access. You can run those things as background tasks and trigger/signal them from a fg rt task for writing/reading.
It takes some systems knowledge and analysis, but not particularly difficult IMO. The one thing I never figured out (or tried really) was a rt window manager. I know there's Quark, and played with it but never looked at it's capabilities. I really think that a rt window manager could significantly cut down hardware requirements. But to be conspiratorial about it, one of my old managers (at a hardware company) told me that hardware vendors like to sell hardware. The way hw/sw is done now to provide adequate response is to brute force things with faster (and energy hungry) hardware rather than looking at the problem and deciding what parts need to be fast (typing/mouse movements/button clicks and acknowledgements vs things that people don't care about. Simple example - closing a window.. Click the x, the net video frame refresh remove the window from being drawn (z buffer?) and do all the closing stuff out of site vs the other way around. That way closing a window would take 1/70th of a second regardless if you had a quad core i7 or an i386. It may take dozens of seconds under the 386 for resources to free up but that's not a problem for most users.
One of my oldest friends is a lawyer (who went to Harvard even). He told me the first 3-4 years was a lot of work writing and amassing a pile of legal documents, but after this time, you've pretty much seen it all so the job becomes finding the document that you wrote a few years back and changing the dates and names and filling in any appropriate detail.
Q: If you have general purpose robot that can do anything, what good is an economy for? Tell your robot to build you some solar panels and a house, grow and prepare your own food, build another robot to help with the tasks. Given a few acres of land, a general purpose robot could provide you with everything you needed to survive. Just like all of history up through th last 70 years or so, except now you won't have to work 15 hours/day.
Knowing the whole stack (from mining up) can help you be better at the part you're specializing in. I've literally been involved in software problems where knowing how CMOS gate logic works came in handy.
Don't forget he hype, eg "Rocket Science". No more difficult tan any other large scale engineering project. But because it's "rocket science" it's immeasurably difficult and therefore must cost a lot.
I work on real time control. The basic for of every piece of software follows the same pattern for the last 60 years.
1 read (measure temperature, water level, etc)
2 evaluate (f(13cm of water, at 90c) = valve opening angle = 17.7 degrees - through some set of complicated functions and lookup tables)
3 output (writing 0x418d999a to location 0xFFBEAD408)
4 wait for timer
5 go to 1
The solution has been abstracted out for about 50 years now. The hard part is knowing not to optimize out &0x418d999a = 0x418d999a because it has no affect n the software or when to use asm ("fflush"); depending on your memory controller. I don't know, maybe something in csp has been developed, but is it really so much better than repl loop?
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You'll probably find similar issues at any large organization. Richard Feynman was noted for saying the triumph of Apollo was not technical but rather managerial.
Who would you recommend over them?
Sandia, not white sands. It was also the name of a bartender that I knew at Mom and Pops. I wonder if that place is still there.
Yeah, sorry about that. I was never at Sandia, just knew people who worked there. And it was a long time ago.
Envy/greed and (not) being happy wherever you are is a mental health problem, so people can read more dr suess.
Two people died while I was there (industrial accident) back in the 80's when it was solely a Berkeley contract. IIRC, White Sands was the private operator and LA was the University operated arms.
The valedictorian from my engineering college was homeschooled through grade school and a friend of my college roommate. He was a very well adjusted person.
Fertile land can be had by anyone for ~$4k/acre, hardly out of the reach of almost anyone. And what is status for?
I have a close friend who homeschools his kid in addition to sending him to school. Poor kid, but ranked #1 at the school in addition to skipping a grade and fluently in two languages. They are also the absolute poorest (as in dirt, not relative) people I know.
If you want to make a lot of money and not be replaced by some kid in a third world country, it's best not to be typical.
how do you transfer your encryption key so it can't be intercepted?
Post office
The big thing that happened was natural gas replacing coal.
In contrast to the usually very social art of the Enlightenment, Romantics were distrustful of the human world, and tended to believe that a close connection with nature was mentally and morally healthy.
Sounds like a lot of people around here.
Society scrambling to find "make work" jobs for the masses that include the army and pointless infra projects?
This is not a new phenomenon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
One of the future areas the company hoped to be in was pervasive computing where every device in your house would have one of our processors and they'd all be talking to one another. I made the comment that it al seemed rather Orwellinan at which point she kinda laughed muttering yeah and finished the remaining 8 slides in as many seconds.
My parent's neighbors do it for free, no 5k$ wifi enabled refrigerator required. They'd probably even go shopping in a bind if asked. When I was a kid, my parents would occasionally send me over to people's houses to check on them. They really seemed to like that and I'd have to listen to stories about WWII or beekeeping.
I used to write software for a couple of the rt linux variants about 15 years ago. It's not that difficult for a large class of problems as there are many things that do not need to be rt, eg, memory allocations, hd or network access. You can run those things as background tasks and trigger/signal them from a fg rt task for writing/reading.
It takes some systems knowledge and analysis, but not particularly difficult IMO. The one thing I never figured out (or tried really) was a rt window manager. I know there's Quark, and played with it but never looked at it's capabilities. I really think that a rt window manager could significantly cut down hardware requirements. But to be conspiratorial about it, one of my old managers (at a hardware company) told me that hardware vendors like to sell hardware. The way hw/sw is done now to provide adequate response is to brute force things with faster (and energy hungry) hardware rather than looking at the problem and deciding what parts need to be fast (typing/mouse movements/button clicks and acknowledgements vs things that people don't care about. Simple example - closing a window.. Click the x, the net video frame refresh remove the window from being drawn (z buffer?) and do all the closing stuff out of site vs the other way around. That way closing a window would take 1/70th of a second regardless if you had a quad core i7 or an i386. It may take dozens of seconds under the 386 for resources to free up but that's not a problem for most users.
One of my oldest friends is a lawyer (who went to Harvard even). He told me the first 3-4 years was a lot of work writing and amassing a pile of legal documents, but after this time, you've pretty much seen it all so the job becomes finding the document that you wrote a few years back and changing the dates and names and filling in any appropriate detail.
Q: If you have general purpose robot that can do anything, what good is an economy for? Tell your robot to build you some solar panels and a house, grow and prepare your own food, build another robot to help with the tasks. Given a few acres of land, a general purpose robot could provide you with everything you needed to survive. Just like all of history up through th last 70 years or so, except now you won't have to work 15 hours/day.
and Slashdot will really care
No it won't. Even if it did, it wouldn't register as a blip.
Knowing the whole stack (from mining up) can help you be better at the part you're specializing in. I've literally been involved in software problems where knowing how CMOS gate logic works came in handy.
industry around designed to make things harder
Don't forget he hype, eg "Rocket Science". No more difficult tan any other large scale engineering project. But because it's "rocket science" it's immeasurably difficult and therefore must cost a lot.
abstracting solutions to problems
I work on real time control. The basic for of every piece of software follows the same pattern for the last 60 years.
1 read (measure temperature, water level, etc)
2 evaluate (f(13cm of water, at 90c) = valve opening angle = 17.7 degrees - through some set of complicated functions and lookup tables)
3 output (writing 0x418d999a to location 0xFFBEAD408)
4 wait for timer
5 go to 1
The solution has been abstracted out for about 50 years now. The hard part is knowing not to optimize out &0x418d999a = 0x418d999a because it has no affect n the software or when to use asm ("fflush"); depending on your memory controller. I don't know, maybe something in csp has been developed, but is it really so much better than repl loop?
Follow MISRA. Avoid weirdness.