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Everytime I learn more about software I am more surprised that the entire world is not on fire, all the time.

So many things where you’re like “ok but surely there’s some guy whose job it is to…” and no there is no guy.

Here’s a tool that a handful of eccentrics maintain as a hobby. If it breaks, it costs hundreds of millions of dollars and thousands of lives.

Oddly enough this model works better than paying people to do it... for what are, really, just overhead activities. Which says something profound and important about how we should approach about 60% of what computers do.

(Government should actively encourge companies to do open source, open research design and should make specific allowance for salaries for support positions for universities, so that weird nerds will invent these problems and then fix them before it matters for anything that is important)

Taking all my lottery winnings and founding the OpenTractor Project

*user was assassinated by John Deere for this post*

This is maybe not all that much of a joke tractor software is a huge deal