Reading the post about how a lot of tech breaks because of the slow internet https://brr.fyi/posts/engineering-for-slow-internet makes me think "Kids these days" (stupid kid coders who can't take into consideration slow or latency-filled connections) and want to take a bat into the "open space" where these dumb devs are siting around...
Am a young dev but it shocks me how few of my fellow developers actually consider tech from the ground up.
Most just say 'x has y, we can use that', even when x does a thousand other things and we only want y.
They completely skip the design phase of Y because they have X.
If you design something with actual minimal requirements, ignoring frameworks and language choices, you may end up using X to do Y, but youll at least know what your system should be doing under the hood.
The thought of designing something from scratch seems to be an alien concept these days.
I was down there recently on a helicopter-based expedition and they set up a forward base of operations with a few days of emergency rations in case of unexpected weather that prevents you from returning to ship. I asked them what happens if the blizzard lasts more than a couple of days. Someone somewhere has a recipe book for penguins.
The version of this that we had when I worked on Erebus (2009-2017) was more fun.
It had a section about crossing crevasses with combinations of sleds and snomobiles and tracked vehicles, crevasse rescue etc. In the middle of otherwise serious text it said "to recover from this situation, you might elect to [something], or possibly [something else]. Either way, a change of underwear is recommended."
For waste management, x-org server/windows tiling, either for USAP risk aversion or wing aircraft GIS systems that are programmed in UNIX, are the long-leverage hold of -CTU static-build boundaries.
Shameless plug: People into this sort of thing might be into my partner's book coming out in April. It's a beautifully written blend of science writing (penguin biology), memoir, and terrifying asides from the heroic age of Antarctic exploration. Her accounts of the wackiness of living and working out of McMurdo are really fun to read, and include all the orientation and training for which this manual was written (though she was there in 2003). And the history stuff is just hair raising.
One of my favourite lines: "There are many ways to die in Antarctica."
(That's the Canadian publisher link, but it's coming out at the same time in the US, UK, Germany, Australia, and Russia as well, and is on all the major book things as preorder).
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 37.6 ms ] threadMost just say 'x has y, we can use that', even when x does a thousand other things and we only want y.
They completely skip the design phase of Y because they have X.
If you design something with actual minimal requirements, ignoring frameworks and language choices, you may end up using X to do Y, but youll at least know what your system should be doing under the hood.
The thought of designing something from scratch seems to be an alien concept these days.
> Field Camp Hut Etiquette
> Sort and pack all trash and recycled materials and take them back to McMurdo Station for proper disposal.
It had a section about crossing crevasses with combinations of sleds and snomobiles and tracked vehicles, crevasse rescue etc. In the middle of otherwise serious text it said "to recover from this situation, you might elect to [something], or possibly [something else]. Either way, a change of underwear is recommended."
If people want I can try to dig it up.
EDIT: found it. p244. https://www.eol.ucar.edu/sites/default/files/files_live/priv... It's really interesting to compare these and see how USAP's risk posture has changed. No more adventures allowed.
https://www.reddit.com/r/HistoryPorn/comments/rjy851/tucker_...
One of my favourite lines: "There are many ways to die in Antarctica."
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/796661/where-the-ear...
(That's the Canadian publisher link, but it's coming out at the same time in the US, UK, Germany, Australia, and Russia as well, and is on all the major book things as preorder).