I have already seen legacy projects that were designed using Rational Rose, but for some reason I thought it was only a commercial name, not an actual system. Thanks, I learned something today !
If birth rates are quickly falling, the debt will have to be repaid by an always smaller population, it seems it will make matter worse. (Unless we find out a magical productivity gain that can be heavily taxed by government)
I am working on medical device software, processes are terrible, tech stack is not really up to date, but at least, I sometimes feel that I am helping people down the line.
I remember an example from another nuclear site cleanup. If you work on a part potentially contaminated you cannot used a normal vacuum cleaner that will disperse some contaminated dust, so you need a special purpose device. Then you cannot dispose easily of the dust, so you need another process. Since the device is also critical you probably need some regular maintenance or tests, so you need someone to manage them.
So basically every single step is much more complex with the associated cost.
What is the benefit of using TNS, which looks like a new protocol requiring specific HW ? versus using Ethercat for example which has similar cycle time I believe.
I am not familiar with ROS 2, there is only a DDS backend and no ethercat backend ?
OK I see the point if you have a slow ROS2 implementation that is up to the task you can use a dedicated FPGA HW to implement RTPS under DDS to get more predictable timings.
As someone working on Class III medical devices, it is true that the FDA does not check if your design is "safe", only that the documentation and process seems to have been followed, but on the other hand you are also required to monitor your install base and report any hazardous event, and in case no adequate remediation/plan to your adverse events, they have the real power to stop the commercialization of the product.
But I agree this is coming a bit late in the process if people have already been harmed.
I am always surprised that humility is a classical virtue but that seems to be totally opposite to the modern life. I can't really think of a lots of humble public figure.
And likely if you are too humble in the workplace, you don't exist either.
Pikuniku is an independent platformer, where you cannot mostly not die except some boss encounter, but some part can be difficult for a 5 years old. It is mainly single player, with a small 2 player part. Available on Switch & PC at least.
Some embedded stuff where the FPGA is used to implement some logic on I/Os, some processing that needs to be fast or implement some i2c, CAN, SPI controller trough IP core. Basically a more flexible way than having different chips on the board.
"Mr Maussan has previously been associated with claims of “alien” discoveries that have later been debunked, including five mummies found in Peru in 2017 that were later shown to be human children."
It does not seem to be the most credible person to show evidence.
I am still using Firefox as my main browser, but some sites are broken with Firefox and working fine with Chrome. So unless you are particularly motivated to stay on a given platform, practically it does not really makes sense as a user to stay committed.
As a European, I can still believe this is true (maybe this is some kind of coping mechanism), but at the same time, I got the impression, that overall healthcare, education, safety nets are getting worse as time goes by, so I don't know how long it will stay an advantage.
At some point, you need to have the mean to finance these services, so stagnating GDP is not that good.