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This is starting to be done for very high value plants (think chip fabs, large datacenters, that kind of thing. When the infrastructure is a $10b expense it's worth it). Small plan…

I've seen similar things in this decade. Lots of stuff still running where the last change in design was 20+ years ago, the current team knows how to keep the lights on and replace…

We currently use a small US contract manufacturer that works pretty much as you say. The turn times are terrible (7+ weeks, not 7 days), and this is a major issue, but there are ex…

The improvements were for things governments (fuel/pollution efficiency) and insurers (safety) wanted, not necessarily you. A new 2010 Toyota likely wouldn't even be legal to sell …

Run on server, chroot into target environment, configure compiler flags for eventual target, done. It's really just an afternoon of setup and then the problem is solved.

Who actually pays for what and how is so mangled that if you want to reallocate someone to another project (or even just pay them out of a different pool of funds!) often the easie…

There's likely always going to be value in limiting the number of $200k+ SWEs you have to pay. But that's not the interesting case. What about the $10k/year offshored employees tha…

There's a lot of maintenance that is much easier/cheaper to do when the apartment is unoccupied, so the default is "do nothing, then when the tenant moves out in a year or two, do …

Uber's situation is exactly the same. OpenAI is offering inference for a bunch of industries at prices that make it more competitive than hiring humans to do the same work. If the …

One heuristic I use to avoid this exact problem is "minimize the number of places that the next poor soul has to look in order to understand how this code works", where place is lo…

Mobile users (or other locked down devices where adblockers are forbidden) are still a decent chunk of traffic. It's much easier to just read the overview and not click through to …

1. Americans got a bit poorer due to inflation. 2. Brand quality went down to equivalent or less of no-name dropshipped goods in order to keep similar dollar prices for goods. 3. C…

It allows the code to be fully public domain, so you can use it anywhere, while very strongly discouraging random people from forking it, patching it, etc. Even still, the tests th…

My 10hr drives usually have 2 stops at 30mins-1hr each, for food. Unfortunately, stopping at a restaurant for a meal doesn't leave the vehicle in a location that has a charger, for…

Something to consider is that in a secure environment like LANL, and especially for a non-standard or one-off process, it's likely that there is no computer system that everyone ha…

Yes, but my junior coworkers also don't reliably do edge case testing for user errors either unless specifically tasked to do so, likely with a checklist of specific kinds of user …

Of course, you can do this in good conditions. The extremely powerful part that TrueTime brings is how the system degrades when something goes wrong. If everyone is synced to +/- 2…

Now, try and use two or more libraries that expose data structures with bitfields, and they have all chosen different crates for this (or even the same crate but different, non-ABI…

1. What does it mean to be a GPU-native process? 2. Can modern GPU hardware efficiently make system calls? (if you can do this, you can eventually build just about anything, treati…

Is this a EU-specific thing? In North America I've never installed a banking app, don't even know if my institution even has one.

These things are amazing for maintenance programming on very large codebases (think, 50-100million lines of code or more, the people who wrote the code no longer work there, it's n…

Good on the Arduino folks for getting acquired, then. They still have a niche and a brand with name recognition, even if that niche might be stable at best, collapsing at worst.

Quite a few radar systems are in the 8-10GHz range and satellite communications just above that. The general idea when using a SDR for these things is to have a separate frequency …

The threading model is still difficult, and it's still enough slower that thinking you're going to be comparable to custom silicon that's been designed for a particular protocol is…

The more fine-grained you make a capability system, the more you have an explosion of the number of permissions required by an application, and the chance that some combination of …