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A couple of decades ago tax code transparency and making it easier and cheaper to file your taxes would have been a very Republican policy. Point taken that the current administration is particularly destructive, but I wouldn't expect Democrats to be very staunch in support this either. The tax/accountant lobby would influence both parties.

I was expecting command line financial software...oh well, maybe next time.

You'll never be able to run both scenarios side-by-side to compare - obviously. But for the people who say that the solution is to just spend more money, we've been doing that for quite awhile and nothing has seemed to improve.

A more interesting study would be to see how many of those dollars actually reach the student, or the teachers - as opposed to administrators or other positions that have less direct influence over the quality of education.

Where are you getting 1.41x? What you'd really like to increase is the SNR. As you open up the bandwidth, the amount of energy you can collect in your band increases, but there's no way to collect the energy from only the signal and not collect the energy from noise. So as you increase your bandwidth, your SNR stays the same.

Not all noise is gaussian. And the fact that the noise is random while the signal is not, is useful when you can average and drop your noise floor. But you need multiple measurements to do that.

I don't put a huge emphasis on credentials. If someone is capable and talented, a degree doesn't change that. However, if they were able to complete an engineering degree (or insert analogous degree from any other area) then they have demonstrated an aptitude and capability that others have not.

The people who couldn't create their keypairs may have had the raw material, but they were trying perform at a level they weren't yet capable of - they couldn't google a simple task and follow instructions. They needed to go back to square zero and learn basics when they were in a graduate program. And because the graduate program was dumbed down, they weren't going to learn the basics in the program.

It's notoriously difficult for the government to fire an employee. It can also be difficult to fire an employee in a defense contractor. From what I know of Anduril, part of their business model is that they've found a way to handle government procurement differently where they are not as constrained? They may well be able to fire people more easily, but I think they might also do a better job of hiring and retaining talent.

The government outsources things to contractors because they have no idea how to manage those projects. Do you want your mayor as the foreman for the crew paving your roads?

As with most businesses, the government has the money but not the know-how so they need to outsource or contract.

I almost graduated (switched programs) from a graduate school cybersecurity program. They tried making the program "interdisciplinary" which essentially meant that they dumbed down the technical classes so that non-technical undergraduate degrees could pass them.

I tried to put together a team of students to compete in one of MITRE's cybersecurity competitions, but struggled to get other students to create SSH keys so that they could get access to the competition server. Not hack into the server, just follow instructions that I gave them to create keys and give me the public ones so that they could log in and participate.

The industry has a similar problem that the military does: It's very difficult to take non-technical people and train them to be cybersecurity professionals, much less hackers.

You need to start with an engineering background, and it almost has to be electrical or computer engineering, or at least computer science. Of those people with that background, hacking in particular is a type of thinking, problem solving, and mentality that not everyone has.

If you want to defend, attack, or manipulate cyber infrastructure you need an understanding of how that infrastructure is designed and operates. An engineering background will at least give you the building blocks for that.

This is a great line, though it might not have aged well. Younger generations might just think "Oh, the sky was black"

Is this some kind of test?

If I met someone who said that any book was their favorite book, and then didn't remember anything about the book or had any value for the ideas that it advocated for, then I'd have to consider that person a bit of a manipulator.

Being disingenuous is just a bad first and only data point to give someone about yourself.

Ah got it, there was a 'Constellation' option to find the GPS sats.

A user interface suggestion: I tried using the 'Find Satellite' option and manually scrolling through all the options in the drop down menu was a little tedious. Maybe allow a filter by typing the first couple of letters?

Also, what are the US GPS satellites listed under? I saw Beidou, GLONASS, and Galileo but I couldn't find the GPS satellites.

If you have no experience in writing software, physics, or applying higher level math, jumping into a master's program without an engineering background will probably wreck you.

Lots of universities will let you sign up for graduate level classes as a continuing education student or certificate program. Sign up for one and see if you can keep your head above water. Even taking a Python class at a community college would help a lot.

That Chevron Deference decision might change the authority that the FTC has in interpreting that.

Definitely need to add a womp womp on a compile error

Some others have mentioned this in their comments and I agree that once you succeed in getting a non-null result, publishing the null results (all the things you tried that didn't work) could be included as appendices or something.

Also, just because you get a null result doesn't mean that nothing was learned, that something new (and unexpected) wasn't stumbled on, or that some innovation didn't happen.

There are tiers of publications and journals. Even if you get a null result and you're not going to get it accepted in Nature, it's very possible that you can get a conference paper (sometimes peer reviewed) out of something that was learned.

Of course every bill is going to allocate money. But there's a difference between allocating money accompanied by a policy reform and passing a bill with the sole purpose of flooding an industry/market with government money.

The IRA is trying to address climate change, yes. But there's the problem of relying on government to have any idea of where to inject money to make the most difference, trusting the government to not just inject money wherever it benefits the most politically connected, and avoiding massive fraud (see the SBA loans during COVID). Not to mention the insane irony of something called the "Inflation Reduction Act" being a massive spending bill.

Point being: Number of bills passed and billions of dollars spent will be terrible metrics for how effective a politician is because of all those nuances.

I obviously haven't read all the bills that were passed (ha!), but my impression is that many of the bills are just spending money - which is always popular with both parties. I don't get the sense that there was a lot of policy reform going on.

And an issue with just spending money is that we have to wait a year or two to figure out if the spent money was effective (unlikely?).

My pessimistic take on the world at the moment is that at least 50% of jobs in the US fall into Graeber's BS jobs category. I saw a map a few years ago that labelled the largest employer in each state. In every state except Arkansas (Walmart), the largest employer was a university or a healthcare company. Education and healthcare policies are controversial because everyone wants those things to be as good as possible, but also because a huge majority of Americans are employed in those industries and our governments pump massive amounts of funding into these bureaucratic structures.

We already have UBI, it's just the overblown bureaucracies housed by American corporate structures.

"Author is modifying the product behavior with their software."

I would say that the end user is modifying the behavior of the hardware, that they own and are fully in control of, by choosing to run software that they purchased. But I'm fully aware that regulatory agencies probably have their own way of thinking about that.

Point taken about how we need some regulations, but isn't everyone sitting in an MBA program right now being trained to identify this exact kind of workaround?

As for displaying a device that isn't certified yet, who's the victim? What's wrong with saying "We can't take orders on this yet, but we're working on getting cool new product certified as fast as possible"? The article said displaying a device, not turning it on.

From your post, it seems like you're painting this guy as a malicious bad actor who going to destroy society when, to me, he seems like someone who's trying to find an efficient way to sell a solution to people who might find it valuable.

What does the average company spend on R&D percentage-wise?

My old company was a contract engineering company, so they always tried to staff everyone possible on projects being paid for by customers. R&D was used to develop internal tech and build expertise on new technologies so it was only maybe 10-25% of most engineer's timesheets.

Do other tech companies spend that much more on R&D?

If you're just getting started, I agree with others here to just get something working. You'll naturally bump into the limitations of whatever structure/design patterns you're using.

Making Embedded Systems[0] is a great book that goes over some basics about how to structure a low level coding project. It's focused on embedded projects, but the principles will still apply.

It's been very useful for me to learn how to make the compiler, and make/cmake, work well with the software that I'm writing. Things like compile time switches can be really useful in making your software super flexible. For example, you can add in compile time switches in your code to log particular events when you're debugging that wouldn't be useful and make your project bloated in the final version.

[0]: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/making-embedded-systems...

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Techne Solutions is a small, embedded software and hardware design firm located in Boulder, CO. I specialize in IoT and Industrial IoT prototyping, but can design for all kinds of applications.

Pursuing a graduate degree in cybersecurity/telecommunications. Always interested in gaining experience in those areas.

Location: Boulder, CO

Remote: Yes

Willing to Relocate: No, but travel to onsite is welcome

Technologies: IoT, IIoT, embedded software (mostly bare-metal), circuit board design for microcontrollers/FPGAs, RF testing background

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Email: james@technesolutionsllc.com

Techne Solutions is an embedded software and hardware design firm located in Boulder, CO. I specialize in IoT prototyping and other embedded system design, but can design for all kinds of applications. I also partner with other contract engineering firms to create larger teams to tackle more diverse and larger projects.

Location: Boulder, CO

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Technologies: IoT, IIoT, embedded software (mostly bare-metal), circuit board design for microcontrollers/FPGAs, RF testing background, mechanical and manufacturing, DFM

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Email: james@technesolutionsllc.com

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