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Pardon my knowledge but isn't this the same as what is being done on the IBM Z Mainframe?

I have seen SysGo's PikeOS being used in Railway signalling systems. Also Threadx in Military Aerospace and Medical devices. Micrium in medical devices.

You can check TI's Hercules Safety MCUs which has 2 MCUs which operate in lockstep. It guarantees the hardware faults I think.

In Railways I have seen two systems running on the same processing and doing a check of the results and then sending it out. If something is opposed then it fails gracefully and safely.

>Most designs were made by very smart people in the 50s at RCA as far as I can tell.

I am very interested to know this. Do you have any resources on this development work done by RCA and how it has shaped the modern world?

The biggest problem for me in doing custom symbols is the measurements and the subsequent drawing. My life goal is as yours, manage to create a custom symbol and also build my own custom dev board. Unfortunately many things got in the way and the work kept delaying for almost 9-10 years now.

The reason I picked a particular SD card was because it was low cost. My country has crazy import fees and because of this I am forced to select low cost parts which usually have bad datasheet and documentation.

> He has relatively wealthy parents who let him convert a garage into a home fab, and talks about dropping $30k on a second hand ESM like it's no big deal.

The envy I feel when I see these guys with such equipment is enormous. I really would love so much to have a loaded electronics work bench especially oscilloscopes, LAs etc. and of course the time to actually play with it. :-(

How do you go about doing the mechanical drawing for a footprint not found in the library? I tried to design a simple SD card board as a learning project. I gave up when the part that I selected was difficult to draw. I was not sure whether I was missing some information or is it my inexperience. My persistence on learning and eventual failure left me with the bad taste.

PS: The part I selected seemed to be a generic brand and did not get any info to clarify the dimensions.

How good is investing by SeqIndia? Their website says they have lot of unicorn exits.

My experience is similar to yours. Prepping takes the longest time for me. I feel that cooking is all about prepping as the actual cooking on the stove takes a lot less time. Many recipes just mention the actual cooking time and some very vague prep time.

Exactly what I have experienced. Even whatever time is mentioned in the cookbooks, I was never able to beat it. It takes a minimum of 45 minutes to prepare a decent dish for me. I too am an amateur and I measure my time with my mother's time and I see a difference but not so much. I do not do multitasking if I have something on the stove which requires constant stirring or moving around.

Also I found that slow cooking brings out the best flavours and aroma.

Apart from the electronic junk how is the actual driving experience? Can you drive comfortably with good power?

Where does this German engineering saying come from? I find German engineering unnecessarily complicated and it looks more or less designed by a committee of bickering members.

Japanese engineering on the other hand in my experience is very solid and also pretty cheap. It is easier to repair and vehicles are like mountain goats that can go anywhere and can be handled roughly.

Queues can also be used to coalesce events. You can run through the queue and see if there are repetitive events which does not have any effect multiple times and can be combined to a single event. This would reduce the work done at the consumer processing these events.

I think you are right. I have to get some exercise as my mind too is getting very slow.

Has anyone read "Common Sense Mathematics"? I really liked that book for shortcuts to elementary maths for mathematical analysis of everyday things.

>basis of mountains of backbreaking and incredibly impactful work.

This is the kind of BS MBAs say to each other.

Search is a joke. Whenever I want to search some conference videos on a topic I get trash after 2-3 results which is totally unrelated with "You may like" nonsense.

> A regular Google search typically returns unrelated products for sale, 15 pages of corporate media and broken English SEO articles, and random videos.

I thought something happened to my browser session or something when it started giving useless results. Youtube is giving me nonsense after a certain set of results. I am shocked because search is THE tech of Google and wondered how they could screw this so badly. Sundar has caused the downfall of Google.

>and sleeping 12+ hours per day.

I hit rock bottom and have slowly dug out. It was more on the relationship side of things.

One thing I noticed these days is I tend to get very sleepy. I am not sure whether it is age related as I am approaching 40. The sleep is such that I fall asleep while typing or if I am reading I fall asleep and the book falls down. I can sleep for long hours and I feel very nice after waking up like it is a new day or something.

I eat decently and I cook what I eat. I also don't have any habits. Is it just age related or something deeper?

In my whole career it was very rare that someone from my network helped. All calls for help would be met with a polite "sure" and then went missing. Some give me a lecture on how to lower my expectations or something else.

I am into systems and I still get Leetcode type questions. For a USB position I was asked code to solve certain regular expressions.

>There is a class of people for whom coding is 'work', as in the actual act of coding is work and they would prefer to be doing anything else, but they have bills to pay.

I always see this set of people highly vocal and against people who actually like to code. It is like they have a tough time accepting that a lot of technical people love to build things.

I see several argue that if you are poor at leetcode then you cannot be a serious algorist. Can you explain why that argument is wrong?

>In many companies, policies are guidelines for management to cover their ass. E.g. "Giving gifts to political leaders in third world countries is prohibited and illegal". This is complete nonsense, every MNC above a certain size have no choice but to grease the wheels when operating in developing countries.

Exactly! It is also not limited to developing countries but in developed countries as well. Just that the criminals are in suits and they use a more sophisticated lobbying instead of the cruder bribing.

I really don't understand how people are so passionate about corporates. It is "work" and they really have to pay me well to get me to do this bullshit.

Working on personal side projects gives me a creative outlet as an engineer to work on things I love without all this bullshit.

The resources that we have now is way better than what we had in our time. The interest amongst students have been more or less the same.

>that given an average Indian programmer, they are more likely to be someone who got educated in a substandard setting among unmotivated peers

This too has not changed much from our time to now. The changes I have noticed in students is the rise of memorizing leetcode type problems due to the plentiful jobs now which need this skill for interviewing.

I don't understand why you are being down voted. I disagree with you that they provide quality though. They don't. It is also the case that the company that hires them provide any quality. All are in it for making money with lowest spend and quality that they can get by. Very few obsess over quality and ones that do are vertically integrated to control quality in each step of the process. Very few American companies are like this.

The engineers who complain here don't have any influence in the decision making or otherwise they wouldn't be crying and complaining here.

Man, I echo the same sentiments. Even I too have this compulsion for neatness and tidiness and find it near impossible to work on completely messed up code.

>But realistically even if I didn't do that, I'd probably still be 20 years into my career and working as a senior dev, so what's the difference?

Similar thoughts. Looking back I think about all the time I had sacrificed to make myself better but for what? There is no value for this as I have seen totally incompetent people still standing and moving much ahead. The corporate juggernaut does not give a damn about workmanship or quality, something I learnt later in my life as I took a pause to catch my breath.

The funny part is WITCH is propped up by these very companies complaining because they themselves are least bothered about quality. I have seen many executives in suit and tie visit them, get treated like royalty and shake their heads and talk bullshit.

I always used to wonder how can someone be so stupid repeatedly but then I learnt along the way that engineer's opinions hold very little value in the way of making money at the lowest cost and quality possible that they can get by.

>Programming/anything to do with PCs in India is a rich man’s hobby.

This is not true. We had a good culture of self assembled PC enthusiasts in our district. This was in early 2000s. In fact it has reduced now maybe due to lack of interest or something even though the prices of PCs have dropped significantly. I see many people use their PCs as locked up phones with no curiosity of hardware.

>Tinkering is not encouraged in colleges in the country.

This sad state is still present to this day and it has become worse as the hardware gets more and more locked down. I don't see much interest in Linux in the younger generations.

I have a theory here. In times of growth the large companies will hire like crazy so that people don't work or create competing products. When times are tough they fire people who in turn will work on creating competing or revolutionary products. This is why you see revolutionary products during recession.