[TUHS] ATC/OSDI'21 joint keynote: It's Time for Operating Systems to Rediscover Hardware (Timothy Roscoe)

[Larry McVoy]

On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 06:40:47PM -0700, Jon Steinhart wrote:
> Larry McVoy writes:
> > On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 06:10:11PM -0700, Jon Steinhart wrote:
> > > Was discussing this with someone the other day.  I'm glad that I have an
> > > engineering degree instead of a computer science degree.  
> >
> > I have and BS and MS in computer science, with most of a minor in
> > systems arch from the EE department (but not all, I did it for fun,
> > I should have finished it).
> >
> > That said, when people ask me what I am, I say I'm an engineer.  And 
> > proud of it, I love being an engineer, to me it just means you are 
> > someone who figures stuff out.
> 
> I'm the opposite.  Would have double-majored in EE and CS but my school
> wouldn't allow double majoring unless you stayed for 9 semesters.  I
> finished my EE in 7 semesters and was 2 classes shy of the CS degree
> and couldn't justify another year just for 2 classes.  In hindsight
> I'm not sure that that was the correct choice because I would have
> partied my ass off.

You do you, I had undiagnosed ADD so partys in college were just an 
awkward cringe fest for me.  Looking backwards, now that I've figured
that out, yeah, I can see it, sort of, if I knew then what I know now.

I was pretty committed to learning in college.  I'm not trying to judge
or anything, it was just such a fun focussed time for me, I'd happily
give up a party (where I was gonna get nothing) for a few hours on slovax
where the BSD source was.

Details aside, I think we both self identify as engineers and love it.