
@mattblaze@federate.social I love the reflections.
Michael Richardson is an open source and open standards consultant.
An autodidact, he wrote mail transfer agents as a teenager, and in the
1990s, after failing at high energy physics, found his calling designing and
building embedded networking products, in the security sector.
Michael is a father of a teenager, and lives in Ottawa, Canada.
@mattblaze@federate.social I love the reflections.
@mattblaze@federate.social Took me three tries not to read “Oscar Meyer” (as in weiner). [Yes, I’m that immature]. But then I started to wonder if “hotdog architecture” is a thing.
@mattblaze@federate.social presumeably the electromechanical converters are immune to EMP. Are the solid-state rectifiers? Are there control systems that monitor them that might be vulnerable? Just thinking aloud for reasons to keep the older converters.
@mattblaze@federate.social I always assumed those buildings were just Transformers that got tired and sat down on Manhattan, and might at some point wake up and leave Earth.