[Milsurplus] GRC109/R-1004A arrived!

[Ian Wilson]

The amount of knowledge that we have has increased explosively
over the past 150 years or so.

I don't think it's possible for a human being to have in-depth knowledge
of more than a few areas of interest and/or expertise these days. This
is not necessarily a bad thing, just the way things are.

What I find truly remarkable is how much of this knowledge can be
accessed, and in what depth, using publicly available information and
search technology.

Although I regard myself with some pride as a curmudgeon, and like
to misapply the term Luddite to myself, I imagine that there are people
around younger than <insert some age younger than yourself here> who
have some idea of what they are doing when it actually matters.

Entering numbers into a spreadsheet to compute something useful
doesn't strike me as a bad thing if it frees up time or brain cells to do
something more interesting than recomputing someone else's equations.

73, ian K3IMW