AmpBenzScientist @AmpBenzScientist@qoto.org

@thor That's perfectly reasonable. In my 20s I believed that doing the right things and playing by the rules would result in a decent life. Now in my 30s and having a good decade of my life being taken advantage of, I'm not bitter about it. I learned many things and that is priceless.

Friends of mine who went off the path are far more successful than I am. I'm not jealous of their success but I am relieved that they have good lives.

I've already tried challenging people or businesses that have belittled my work and me as a person. Surprisingly I was successful in besting most and in nontrivial ways. It resulted in me being seen as belligerent and irrational by many. It doesn't matter if I was correct, acted in good faith and saw it through at my own expense. The experts are always right but not always correct.

To defend what is correct against the powers that be is almost entirely futile. My efforts were praised in private and I was treated warmly. To quote a wise man who saw it play out, "You proved that you were better than the expert. They were thankful that you saved their ass but you are seen as a threat because of what you did in good faith. The threat that would have hit them got taken care of by you. NDA? Even if there was no NDA, whatever you presented would be dismissed. You worked hard and you did good work but you were disposable."

To summarize, experts tell no lies that stand out to normal eyes. Going against the tide is career suicide. Doing the right thing might very well cost one everything. I don't have any regrets, I just want to get over the result of that experience and other similar events. This is the reason why I want to work on equipment or something very different.

The damage is done. I can't forget what I know and love. I can do something else and do what I love in my free time. Once bitten, twice shy. I just repeated being bitten in the hopes that it would pay off.

@freemo @VoxDei The NSA?

@thor It was probably better and more efficient. Remember having less than 1GB of RAM and using floppy disks? It was terrible but it taught values that modern computers don't.

A virus killing an OS was a regular occurrence. Having to open a computer to replace a card for a certain use was common and people lived off the hardware.

Performance penalties will increase the further we distance the code from the hardware. Perhaps the most important point is that the user is further removed from the hardware and less knowledgeable about the features. This Security Fallacy is going to ensure less impressive code as a parasite core will keep useful features behind barriers.

Programmers now have to play in a sandbox with their degrees that crush their ambitions. They will use what they were taught with fear of deviating from a textbook. Perhaps there exists a better way but if they tried it in University, they were likely punished for going outside of the textbook.

Modern design principles are the cause of the problem. The principals were likely formed as the old assembly coders and C coders were becoming disillusioned and deciding to quit. Perhaps the industry deserves this. They reap what they have sown, the grapes of wrath.

@thor I'm doing something similar with a Near IR Spectrometer. I'm reluctant to build it when LPAS is not too much more difficult but a lot more impressive.

I still remember the DSP and how disappointing it was. To quote The Greatful Dead, "What a long strange trip it has been." I wish you the best of luck Thor. I'm turning into a Cenobite from my perversions and I have no regrets.