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  • admin@sh.itjust.workstoProgrammer Humor@lemmy.ml•Programmers then and now
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    1 year ago

    shlubs who barely passed undergrad data structures and algorithms courses.

    And that’s the problem with most people getting into IT nowadays, they expect to go to an algorithms course or a development bootcamp and come out knowing everything to make a 6 figure salary, but don’t even try to learn what a software dependency is or how to fix their dev environment and expect GPT to shlub it up, when in reality many of these old school software programmers were self learning nerds who were just trying to solve (a) problem, and spent hours doing so.

  • admin@sh.itjust.workstoProgrammer Humor@lemmy.ml•Programmers then and now
    15·
    1 year ago

    Not to mention the sense of pioneering something.

    something you’re happy to spend 80+ hours a week on, especially when basic needs are taken care of.

    Vs writing the same thing that already exists with a different front end, a bunch of times with different examples, because somebody who has more resources (not just more cash, but also time) decides visuals are more important than real functionality.

    Part of the reason I don’t like ‘coding’ or developing software its because is so dreadful and feels overly stupid when an open source alternative works better than what you’d be able to make before the deadline.

    I just rather be a CTO / SysAdmin and live happier.

  • admin@sh.itjust.workstopolitics @lemmy.world•FBI arrests judge in escalation of Trump immigration enforcement effort
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    1 year ago

    I feel it started before and it was like that before covid. I’m gen Z and I remember around 2017 the rise of popularity of songs about “me me me being the #1 gang banger the gangster, them bitches love me, them ni**as hating” among the people in my age group, and it sorta just grew from there.

    What I noticed during covid and once TikTok style videos became mainstream was sort of a “normalization” or acceptance of the phenomena mentioned above.

    Remember Wall-E were everyone in the future is a fat individualistic human being, connected to a bed on wheels with a screen and everyone seems to be doing their own thing with no resemblance of families, couples, friends, goals?

  • admin@sh.itjust.workstopolitics @lemmy.world•Trump exempts phones, computers, chips from new tariffs
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    1 year ago

    I’ve exported computer parts before and you’d be surprised that the way to declare them is not: “gaming PC” or “Macbook air 13"” in the customs form but more like “Data processing machines” and if you were to ship a motherboard, it has to be declared as “Data Processing Machine Parts” or whatever it is, with a totally different code and classification, same thing for memory devices, for CPUs and even for storage devices.

    So yeah, I have a feeling they won’t even bother covering all the angles and just allow assembled computers, phones (since the US made iPhone is impossible at this point) and “chips” whatever they decide classifies as a chip.

  • admin@sh.itjust.workstopolitics @lemmy.world•Elon Musk says the Post Office and Amtrak should be privatized
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    2 years ago

    Wanna make the US better?

    Look at Europe, for starters. Make walkable and cyclable cities that are designed for humans not for cars. Then have normal speed (< 200kph) trains on an hourly or even half hourly service between neighboring cities.

    I mean, for starters, there’s approximately the same distance between Los Angeles and Phoenix, than between Frankfurt and Paris, the difference is the geographic variation, climate and other factors such as Arizona and California being separated entities even though they are in a federal union, that wouldn’t make it worth it or work.