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competing with people with PhDs

Yes. This is the tragedy of programming and computer "science": you know everything about making tools and writing code to other people's specs — and nearly nothing about solving actual real-world problems. That's why I mentioned carving out a niche. I didn't intend to build a whole plant, but a company which comes up with software which helps people building plants might have a fighting chance.




Sounds like a solutions searching for a problem. Let's wait for the US to decide to build q new reactor first.

You would also probably require experience writing real-time, fail-safe systems (like vxWorks) and a very high government security clearance.




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