{"id":359,"date":"2019-04-13T08:38:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T22:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2019\/04\/13\/digital-engineering-vs-analog-engineering\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T13:03:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T03:03:10","slug":"digital-engineering-vs-analog-engineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2019\/04\/13\/digital-engineering-vs-analog-engineering\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Engineering vs. Analog Engineering"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/CodersII.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"508\" data-original-width=\"337\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/CodersII.jpg\" width=\"265\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <\/div>\n<p> <b>In a book <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2019\/04\/how-the-new-art-form-of-coding-came-to-shape-our-modern-world\/\">review<\/a> Thompson makes this observation about the digital-analog divide: <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <span style=\"background-color: #f0f1f2; font-family: \"opensans\";\"><b><i><span style=\"font-size: large;\">One difference might be that human beings can deal with ambiguity, and computers really can&#8217;t. If you&#8217;ve done any Python [coding], you make the tiniest mistake, and everything stops immediately. That\u2019s what makes it different even from other forms of engineering. When you are trying to fix a car, if you fail to tighten a bolt on one wheel as tight as it should be, the entire car doesn&#8217;t stop working. But with code, an entire app, an entire website can go down from the misplacement of a single bracket. I think that&#8217;s the one thing that sometimes scares writers away, because they are more accustomed to working with ambiguity.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/span><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2019\/04\/how-the-new-art-form-of-coding-came-to-shape-our-modern-world\/\">https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2019\/04\/how-the-new-art-form-of-coding-came-to-shape-our-modern-world\/<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p> <b>I am definitely more accustomed to working with ambiguity. All of my rigs are filled with ambiguity. <\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a book review Thompson makes this observation about the digital-analog divide: One difference might be that human beings can deal with ambiguity, and computers really can&#8217;t. If you&#8217;ve done any Python [coding], you make the tiniest mistake, and everything stops immediately. That\u2019s what makes it different even from other forms of engineering. When you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2019\/04\/13\/digital-engineering-vs-analog-engineering\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Digital Engineering vs. Analog Engineering&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":360,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[144,142,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-computer-history","category-digital-logic","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":361,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions\/361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}