"A company like John Deere in their precision agriculture unit employs over 2500 computer programmers[...]"
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Replying to @SwiftOnSecurity
I've used farming as a denigrative term before, but 1% of our population is making multiple times the food we can consume. It's incredible.
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I don't remember historical numbers, but even in eras seen as advancing human achievement, 70%+ of humanity was sustenance farming.
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One of the most worrying arguments I've heard is that humanity is at a point where, if we fall, we fall forever. An irreversible cascade.
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It takes billion dollar semiconductor fabs fed by a worldwide supply chain and trade agreements to make our tractors even turn on.
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That's really a load of bs. Anyone who works on these machines can make them run without any semiconductors.
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Replying to @RichFelker @SwiftOnSecurity
ahhh not true really. I won't say a new john deere cant be reverse engineered, but you're gonna need a chip.
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Replying to @RhysRhaven @SwiftOnSecurity
I see no reason you can't just bypass the electronics & wire power directly to actuators w/mech switches.
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Main exception is fuel injection but you can modify it to use more primitive methods at cost of fuel economy.
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Replying to @RichFelker @SwiftOnSecurity
i was definitely thinking about fuel injection. Its a big overhaul no matter how you think about it.
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Yeah, but in the big scheme of what you'd have to do in that type of scenario, it's a lesser concern imo.
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Breakdown of human systems is a lot harder to overhaul than fuel injection for an engine.
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