Some of us need the Socratic Dialog. I was driven to learn about mathematics. I had real drive and read a LOT. I was smart. Yay me. I managed to mis-learn a heck of a lot that way. It wouldn't have been so bad later on but I mis-learned some basic things. It was unpleasant and time consuming to go back and edit out what I got wrong and I needed someone outside my own head. I couldn't see what's wrong in my own head alone. Sadly, even in college, that kind of teaching isn't available so much but it's golden.

As funny as that is: "I'm Autistic" seems a more powerful social excuse than "I have Aspergers". In any case: most of us whatever-we-ares still need to do our limited best not to be jerks. If we want a social life: Labels are more of a tool to find strategies to be less of an asshole than an excuse for being one. ...and pathetically, getting all pedantic on a funny joke is probably itself an example of assholery. Sorry dmomo.

If you co-ordinate with people in different countries this gets to be pretty annoying. Seattle PST/PDT doesn't change the same days as in, for instance: Victoria, Australia. Which aren't the same days as say, London, England. This makes co-ordination a bit of a drag. The deltas shift around every Spring and Fall: not once, but several times. UT makes it manageable but it still grates.

Further, the few farmers I know couldn't care less.

I liked Archer and much of the series (except the theme) because the ship was so limited. By definition almost every spacefaring race they came across was more technologically advanced and they had to deal with that. He was often ignorant, if well meaning, because humans just hadn't been around that much. He had to clean up some of his own messes (not a common theme for Kirk) and actually live with the Prime Directive; leaving a whole species he could save...but doesn't. He had to deal with the Vulcans, who were not entirely wonderful in Archer's experience AND had to ask for their help.

In short: Archer had to successfully play with the big kids in a toy ship.

OK, many people involved are probably retired or dead by now, but way back in the early eighties there was the ISO networking standard which was to replace TCP/IP and it was HEAVILY pushed by ITU. It had it's charms but man it was heavy.

"ISO will replace TCP/IP in 5 years" was a real thing. After 10 years the phrase became a joke. Now it isn't even that.

Ever wondered why the L in LDAP stands for "Lightweight"? It started as a radically simplified version of ISO directory services.

Almost nobody used ISO (including ITU, which at the time preferred paper over networks internally) but ITU really pushed it over that toy internet thing. They also charged a lot of money to buy the bookshelf-meters of ISO documentation...only available on paper for the most part.

It is probably completely unfair to the ITU of 2012 but I find myself worried whenever they are mentioned in the same breath as "internet".

I believe the Soviets had a "hatch-back" earlier. I expect it makes suiting up quite a bit faster and simpler.

If you are asking these questions (they are good questions) this is likely WAY above your pay grade. You need to find the people that know the regs and tech and get them involved. Now. Slashdot is nice but it's nowhere near sufficient and much posted will be simply wrong if you care about your career even when technically correct (and a lot won't be).

The number of ways to screw this up (assuming it is even allowed) are mind boggling and there are at least three major categories of ways to screw up: Military, Technical and Political.

Please note you may be opening a can of worms not just with the Navy but the country you are berthed at! There are places where encrypted internet traffic is not looked upon kindly.

The trade offs are non trivial. Having on-ship access means devices are more likely to stay on board, which is a very good thing. Installing high speed internet access can make any data leaks go faster, not a good thing. If you do this you need every t crossed and every i dotted.

This must come up a lot and I guarantee the Navy has a stack of rules somewhere. If you are lucky: self-consistent ones.

...and a random thought: Would setting up WiFi be "interesting" in compartmentalized steel ship?

Have you had statistics training? If not, please get a little.

I may be the only mathematician who had this problem (I wasn't all that good) but Statistics threw me for a loop at first (I was briefly fairly competent eventually). Statistics isn't calculus; calculus is a big part of classical statistics.

A pure mathematician hitting statistics cold may have almost as big a problem a student with little mathematics. Mathematics knowledge can actually get in the way at first.

The big breakthrough for me was realizing a random variable isn't much like the variables I was used to. That I had to think differently. Once past that, I was at an advantage again because I had gotten through undergrad calculus and linear algebra but until then, I was MORE confused than the soft science majors around me.

Programs compatible with KeePassX (or ports of KeePassX) exist for pretty much everything: Windows, MacOS, Linux, BSD, Android, iOS but they often have slightly different names (e.g. the program I use on iOS is KyPass) which makes it seem less available than it is.

..and I lose.

I understand the AA Book, "Pass it On" (which I haven't read darn it), mentions Bill W being one of those who did LSD in a research medical setting. Interesting guy. If I have that wrong, PLEASE correct.

Me too but I don't think the problem was Pascal so much, as how it was taught.

In my Pascal class (typical for its time), pointers were taught as an abstract concept.

When I started learning C, a pointer was just an address in RAM. THAT was way easier for me to wrap my head around. Doing pointer arithmetic nailed the idea down.

After that, pointers made sense to me in both languages.

When it comes to desktops, laptops and even small sets of servers, I'm agreeing. BUT I'd posit tight code matters now MORE than it did then; it just doesn't matter so much in desktops (or laptops and even newish smart phones) much any more. There are a lot of price-sensitive micro-controller devices in this world. It can also matter, perversely, in really large server farms. If you need to update 10,000 machines, it's nice if the update is relatively small. As for efficiency: if you can get by with 9,000 machines instead of 10,00 machines...that's an optimization worth doing.

...and a beautiful thing it is for fast booting (after the first time) and if you mostly run the same few programs. Not so pleasant where files are rapidly changing but just the ticket for a laptop.