Yeah, I don't understand why it has to be agile XOR waterfall. Agile development simply doesn't work in projects that have so many externally imposed constraints that there is barely any flexibility left.
Why would someone go to a place in an actual conflict zone that is under attack by actual drones right now to flee from hypothetical drones in a hypothetical conflict?
The primary goal of these efforts is to control communication and the flow of ideas. Information is a control mechanism, since we act on what we believe.
In history we had four media revolutions (printing press, radio, television, Internet), each greatly disrupting and reshaping society. This is the fifth (social media and maybe AI).
All these revolutions had the same theme: increased reach of information, increased speed of transmission, increased density (information amount per unit of time), and centralization of information sources.
Now we seem to reach the limits of change.
No more reach, since our information networks span the entire globe.
No more speed, since transmission times are close to how fast we can perceive things.
The only things left to change are even more centralization and tighter feedback loops (changing the information based on how the recipient reacts).
Given all that, this media revolution might be the last one, so there is a gold rush among the elites to come out on top.
1. Ask questions, and write down the answers in a way that you will find them again. Anki and spaced repetition is useful to learn the terminology or any info that isn't intuitive.
3. Compared to C/C++ I can't really think of any pitfalls. It requires more discipline and formal reasoning, but you will get used to it (and appreciate the lack of footguns, at least I did).
> In literate programming you do not write the code then present it to a human reader. You describe your goal, assess various ideas and justify the chosen plan (and oftentimes change your mind in the process), and only after, once the plan is clear, you start to write any code.
This is not literate programming. The main idea behind literate programming is to explain to a human what you want a computer to do. Code and literate explanations are developed side by side. You certainly don't change your mind in the process (lol).
> Working with LLMs is quicker though
Yes, because you neither invest time into understanding the problem nor conveying your understanding to other humans, which is the whole point of literate programming.
But don't take my word, just read the original.[1]
Yeah. This is the curse on any legacy software that doesn't enforce strict separation of logic and UI. Any larger change to the UI requires an awful lot of manpower that open source projects usually don't have.
I wonder if it would be possible to extract the spreadsheet data model and logic into a library completely separate from the UI. This would enable a diversity of UIs, and also interoperability between different tools.
Sounds very interesting, but may I ask how this actually works as a hobby? Is it purely theoretical like analyzing and modeling, or do you build real rockets?
Build and fly. It’s interesting because it attracts a lot of engineers. So you have groups who are experts in propulsion that make their own solid (and now liquid bi-prop) motors. You also have groups that focus on electronics and make flight controllers, gps trackers etc. then you have software people who make build/fly simulators and things like OpenRocket. There’s regional and national events that are sort of like festivals. Some have FAA waivers to fly to around 50k ft. There’s one at Blackrock Nevada where you can fly to space if you want. A handful of amateurs have made it to the karman line too.
There is no incentive to implement such a feature. Bots and paid social media workers drive engagement. Also social media sites are designed to avoid any triggers that make users click away (like showing origin flags that would allow a user to easily dismiss a thread as fake). This is the same reason why Youtube removed dislike counts.
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