Steve Hersey
n1xnx@tilde.zone
<p>Tech wizard. Once a rocket scientist, always a rocket scientist. No f**ks to give for fascists or AI cultists.</p><p>Engineer: Fathoming the unfathomable, scruting the inscrutable, and effing the ineffable.</p><p>NOTE: If you have no profile picture, no bio, and no account history, your follow request will be blocked. (Of course, only those who aren't bots, and thus don't fall into that category, will actually read this.)</p>
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@randahl@mastodon.social The Mad King just keeps sinking deeper into madness.
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@mattblaze@federate.social @GhostOnTheHalfShell@masto.ai Speaking as a real hardware engineer, we don't NEED oscilloscopes. We divine the waveforms by holding our hands over the circuit and listing to the vibrations pf out hemoglobin. Bandwidth is adjusted by calibrating our coffee intake. (OK, yeah, we DO need oscilloscopes, but there's still that reputation for mystery to be maintained, or everyone else will get in on the fun.)
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@crazyeddie@mastodon.social @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social Sigh. Yes, that makes perfect sense. I remember reading commentary back in the 1980s to the effect that automating a (business) process doesn't make it BETTER, it just makes its existing failure modes happen FASTER, often with the result that the humans who were able to cope with those failures when they came at a human rate are now overwhelmed by them occurring at the speed of computer processing. It was true then for paper-based...