so what do you old farts that don't go into management actually _do_ to keep up with the arbitrary churn and escalating complexity in the software and hardware world? pandemic probably has something to do with it but at 46 i feel i'm hitting a wall
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my "retirement plan" has been to focus on better tools. focus more Haskell and Rust for instance but i keep getting drawn into embedded C land. i feel incremental changes are not going to cut it and i need to make some choices. cut some things out. not clear how.
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sorry for calling you an old fart
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i guess the problem is just scope. considering to move more deliberately to testing. that's where i've found most "tool freedom", and it's a domain that is seriously underestimated
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there's a lot of interesting stuff going on around formal verification right now
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you know my first response was: i wish i could actually use formal approach in my work. this fermented into: maybe i should just stay away from work where this is not possible
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because if i zoom in to what exactly made last couple of years so difficult, it is all about unpredictable hardware issues. "side problems"
and overall legacy things that are broken and can't be reasonably fixed
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cant-fix-paint-over infinitely stacking tetris games
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