> Only at small scales are full stack engineers valuable.
Only if a software or integration problem is labeled neatly with the system and expertise required one can afford such thinking. Is the issue in the front-end, backend, gateways, middleware stack, network or compute? But even more dangerous are ‚valuable‘ narrow experts designing systems without awareness of the limitations in all other layers.
Good point, get into the right company and move to a place you like. I did that way back moving from lab to customer service (right company and right country) to get into the R&D I wanted. Easier to execute in a company that is rapidly expanding.
Telecoms by nature are global and one could argue Ericsson and Nokia both have global R&D and manufacturing - with a big and increasing part in China. The main reason for the consolidation in 2008 was imho. the preceeding concentration of telecom service providers putting pressure through their consolidated buying on the equipment providers triggering supplier consolidation.
Diversity thrives in environments with chaos and boundaries. Stable economic conditions, one single buyer with standardized buying rules are not helpful here. The nature of compromises driven by politics instead of facts (and thankfully so as concrete feedback for weapons means war) leads to pseudo differentiated products with poor cost benefit ratios. The recent developments in drone technology out of Ukraine are a testament what could be done with respect to creating a manufacturing ecosystem. Some of these insights are paid for dearly, some others may be of use also in peace times.
It is not a nuance in an article that focuses on storage from the supposed premier professional association. As an engineer I would expect typical energy content (median/average) of the top 10 hydro pump projects and also some discussion about the availability of suitable sites. I think one should strive for at least high school level physics. There is no need to push out texts that can be easily surpassed by any current llm.
Trace can become so voluminous that it is switched on only on a need basis which can be too late for rare events. Also trace level as more a need to use debug tool tends to be less scrutinized for exposing sensitive data making it unsuitable for continuous operation or use in live production.
You don‘t need fraudsters just a run of the mill bully is enough. I remember a phase in my life where I had to do some high visibility reporting. I showed all underlying facts, methodology and conclusions and every week the bully tore into a minor detail devaluing my work and distracting from vital tasks. Only when I started shielding data and my reasoning as private and just delivering high level summary results I was able to put an end to it.
Maybe we should pay the ones that put in the work and leverage their experience to judge the quality which would be the reviewers. In this age of disintermediation journals add little value in providing infrastructure or paying (if at all) reviewers and that money is in any case mostly public money.
If you have to grade essays and you give students more time you have to spend more time on grading - taking away time from preparing lessons and supporting students individually.
There is a lot of society level knowledge and education around car usage incl. laws requiring prior training. Agents directed by AI are relatively new. It took a lot of targeted technical, law enforcement and educational effort stopping people flying through windshields.
It used to but Oracle‘s licensing and probably more important security guidelines from the very top linking CVE scores to mandatory updates got things moving on the last years.
The discussions shifts across the board but it takes time to shift due to momentum. The EU has many nations and many more companies all making strategic purchasing decisions. US dependence skeptics belittled earlier have now concrete examples and more weight. The shift can already observed in weapons system purchasing but won‘t be limited to those. For better or worse the US has lost its position of trust and is sadly working on cementing distrust for the next decades.
Parking violations can affect handicaped people. Also parking and halting restrictions at least in Germany are often motivated by safety concerns. If you get injured in an accident made more likely by a parking violation you may feel different.
Competing with your customers can be a risky strategy for a platform provider. If the platform abandons the neutral stance its customers will be a lot more open to alternatives.
Way back around ‘84 in the military I was doing the artillery survey calculations for the Lance (potentially nuclear) missile. We had to store first the program into the volatile hp memory, run check calculations before doing the real calculations. I always found the calculations very efficient - they had to be as they had to be done within certain time limits (and independently checked). It was a strange feeling thinking about doing the calculations under high pressure and what the stakes were if you would get the coordinates or directions wrong in case it would be used.
It is a question of probability and effort. My personal estimation rule for my type of projects is it takes 3 times longer from my prototype to something I‘m comfortable having others use it and another factor to get to an early resemblance of a product. A recent interview I read an AI expert said each 9 in terms of error probability is the same effort.
Most software written does not serve a serious nation level user base but caters to so a relatively small set of users. The effort spent eradicating errors needs to be justified by the effort of workarounds, remediation work and customer impact. Will not be fixed can a rationale decision.
Does that mean porn is watched by 77% fewer people or does that mean it is watched elsewhere? It may just lead to a greater exposure to malware of the UK.
The problem is - a lot of the achievements over the past decades were the result of investments of foreign nations in terms of education and capital. And now the one key capital of experience namely the integration of foreigners is deliberately destroyed.
I remember jumping out of gosub on the Apple ][ and eventually running into an out of memory error as the stack on the 255 byte page $01 overflowed. As math was also done on the stack math functions broke. Simplifying expressions only delayed the inevitable doom. I had to abandon the project and only later understood my first encounter with a memory leak.
A lot what has been heaped upon us is accidental complexity in Brook‘s silber bullet sense. LLM‘s cut straight through it, collapsing the silos of knowledge (and eco systems) build around languages and frameworks.