It's too bad that Elon Musk and Kelly Johnson never met. Both are engineers' engineers doing impossible things, and I bet they would have had a blast.
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Hats off to the Engineers Engineers that Engineered the chopsticks catch, there were quite a few getting into the technical weeds:
https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2F2...
P.S. I've read full length biographies of both, and am an ME/AE engineer myself. I think I have at least some grasp of what they have accomplished.
I dont know what the general solution is here.. make sure (organizational) Hierarchies are as fluid as the Recompense (including, by reputation) & Responsibilties, i suppose
nu_H = nu_RR
where nu has units of viscosity
Failing so, i’d prefer to defer judgement after we’ve had blood samples from both Kelly n Musk. (For lead, fluoride, other psychoactives etc)
(IMX rapidly expanding Hierarchies do not [pace Landau] relax on a negligible time scale)
Length scales are impt too, we are obsessed with highly localized organizations like Musk’s (other than X) & Kelly’s because they seem so effective but the most insidious ones tend to rely on (the discrepancy bewtween?) long (or even mid) range info/materiel exchanges..
(Wuz thinking how the revolutionary structures (i.e. artillery stds?) were mostly already in place for decades before NB)
Q: how did these not diffuse to french navy? [Boudriot-Berti]?
> ...j’espérais remplacer le général Dahlmann, colonel de vos guides. » L’Empereur répondit : « Quand le général Lasalle ne jurera plus et ne fumera plus, non seulement je le mettrai à la tête d’un régiment de cavalerie de ma garde, mais je le ferai un de mes chambellans. » Le général Lasalle s’inclina et dit à l’Empereur : « Sire, puisque j’ai toutes les qualités d’un marin, je demande à Votre Majesté le commandement d’une frégate...
(Lasalle hopes for a promotion, but the Emperor tells him if he quits swearing and quits smoking he'll not only get the promotion but become a chamberlain as well. Lasalle responds, "As I have all the qualities of a sailor, why don't you put me in charge of a frigate?")
More seriously, today I learned two ways to say "legacy code" in chinese, of which I suspect 问题代码 to be more polite, and 屎山代码 somewhat less.
Poking around in https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/三民主義/民權主義第五講 I found another trichotomy, just a little less cynical than Rao's:
SYS Gervais SYS example
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先知先覺 psychopaths civil engineer
後知後覺 clueless foreman
不知不覺 losers workmen
> 都是靠這三種人，無論是缺少了那一種人都是不可能的。... 先知先覺的人要有一份，後知後覺的人要有一份，就是不知不覺的人也要有一份。