Comment on The electromechanical angle computer inside the B-52 bomber's star trackerparentComments−beachy4moI think the opposite. Hardware is hard, as they say. Building such complex electromechanical designs to military specs without modern CAD tools must have been the equivalent of writing code in binary, without high level languages or even assembler.−po1nt4moI'll take it any day if I wouldn't need to see docker on windows anymore.−mizzao4moIt seems GP was appreciating the beauty and purity of engineering required in solving such problems (as opposed to, perhaps, fighting AI slop today).
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I think the opposite. Hardware is hard, as they say. Building such complex electromechanical designs to military specs without modern CAD tools must have been the equivalent of writing code in binary, without high level languages or even assembler.
I'll take it any day if I wouldn't need to see docker on windows anymore.
It seems GP was appreciating the beauty and purity of engineering required in solving such problems (as opposed to, perhaps, fighting AI slop today).