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> As an aside I am not an expert in the grid or electricity, I am a software developer, and this is my best interpretation of the requirements I could find. If

> As an aside I am not an expert in the grid or electricity, I am a software developer, and this is my best interpretation of the requirements I could find. If this kind of sentence isn't an example of why society is turning against SV/tech, I don't know what is.

mulmen 6y ago
Really? Why? I figured it would be something like "I make surveillance equipment for a living" or "I am the reason you see ads before your favorite content" or maybe "I caused a genocide and am the reason you can't talk to your uncle anymore."
- maybelsyrup 6y ago
  It's kind of a hot take at this point, and in a vacuum what the person is saying is, if anything, laudable -- he's announcing his own subject matter ignorance/inexperience and making a go of it as an autodidact, etc. Humble! But in the current context, this looks a lot like a lot of other, more famous attempts to disrupt or solve age-old, difficult problems using technology or software ... Problems that turn out to still be tough once the software-savior has put the solution on the market and absconded with the money. I think parts of society are starting to read a bit of arrogance in this approach after 20 years of big tech swallowing us whole.
  - mulmen 6y ago
    I don't get it. The post says even the NERC regulations are insufficient to prevent this situation and that Texas (ERCOT) may have even higher standards. I don't see any suggestion that a tech company or even technology in general would solve this problem. Just an admitted non-expert pointing out that the current best practices to not adequately prepare for this situation.
  - ptcrash 6y ago
    Having read the article, I didn't see any suggestions towards a solution... just clarifying which regulations would have helped/stratified the problem. Why do you have an issue with a non-expert clarifying that he's not an expert? I prefer people call out their own ignorance as apposed to implying expertise they don't have.
shortandsweet 6y ago
Absolutely! But not just tech, the internet as well.

mulmen 6y ago

Really? Why? I figured it would be something like "I make surveillance equipment for a living" or "I am the reason you see ads before your favorite content" or maybe "I caused a genocide and am the reason you can't talk to your uncle anymore."

maybelsyrup 6y ago
It's kind of a hot take at this point, and in a vacuum what the person is saying is, if anything, laudable -- he's announcing his own subject matter ignorance/inexperience and making a go of it as an autodidact, etc. Humble! But in the current context, this looks a lot like a lot of other, more famous attempts to disrupt or solve age-old, difficult problems using technology or software ... Problems that turn out to still be tough once the software-savior has put the solution on the market and absconded with the money. I think parts of society are starting to read a bit of arrogance in this approach after 20 years of big tech swallowing us whole.
- mulmen 6y ago
  I don't get it. The post says even the NERC regulations are insufficient to prevent this situation and that Texas (ERCOT) may have even higher standards. I don't see any suggestion that a tech company or even technology in general would solve this problem. Just an admitted non-expert pointing out that the current best practices to not adequately prepare for this situation.
- ptcrash 6y ago
  Having read the article, I didn't see any suggestions towards a solution... just clarifying which regulations would have helped/stratified the problem. Why do you have an issue with a non-expert clarifying that he's not an expert? I prefer people call out their own ignorance as apposed to implying expertise they don't have.

shortandsweet 6y ago

Absolutely! But not just tech, the internet as well.