Takumidesh @ Takumidesh @lemmy.world

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About 350k people, or a suburb of a single big city.

Also Linux's package ecosystem are not cross compatible.

BP...

Let me just rake up all this sand and grass clippings.

A) the three laws were devised by a fiction author writing fiction. B) video game NPCs aren't ai either but nobody was up in arms about using the nomenclature for that. C) humans hallucinate fake information, ignore directions and restrictions, and spread false information based on unreliable training data also ( like reading everything that comes across a Facebook feed)

Manual labor has been being automated since the industrial revolution.

Autopilot also turns off on planes when things go wrong.

Corporations can do all of those things while also operating as a non profit

Except knowledge.

It's foolish of you to assume that most people want to build a computer.

And before people respond with 'its just Legos'

There is so much more to it for someone with little to no knowledge.

Bios and firmware updates that require certain CPUs coupled with certain motherboards.

CPU sockets and inter compatibility.

The different specs of any given component and the value they provide to someone looking for specific workflows

Sizing of components and cases

Knowing where to find parts and what prices are acceptable.

Etc, etc ,etc.

Pick something that you know nothing about, let's say cars just as an example.

Now imagine, let's, say want to buy a car but it doesn't come with wheels, you don't get a list of 4 wheels to choose from, You get, lug patterns, sizing, and type, offset, wheel diameter, wheel width, bead lockers or no bead lockers, 1 piece, 2 piece or 3 piece, etc.

Now you have to spend all this time researching just about wheels, and then how they fit with the car you chose specifically earlier in the process, it would be frustrating and incredibly difficult for people who just want a car.

Go on any thread or forum and ask 'what GPU should I get' which is already making assumptions about someones understanding and knowledge (that they even know what a GPU is), and you will get 20 conflicting answers and need to write a paragraph in responses to narrow it down enough.

Present someone with no knowledge this: 'DDR3-2666 CL9' vs 'DDR3-2000 CL7'. How do you really expect someone who just wants to play a video game to just implicitly know what those numbers mean, how they relate to each other etc.

Building a computer is an immensely difficult task for someone who doesn't know much or anything about it, and believe it or not, the reality is not everyone wants to learn, places like lemmy and other tech focused echo chambers seem to forget that.

You go to new York and just immediately get bombarded with pizza, when you get off the plane they put a pizza around your neck.

Well, it would be faster if I didn't need to drive 4 hours for a 7/11, but I get ya.

They influence the people watching them.

You can get red caviar (salmon instead of sturgeon) for like $20 a can.

Conservatives learn about set theory, transphobes in shambles.

Well traditionally, cars only had one trunk, now it is common that they have two. The need arose to distinguish them, and 'front trunk' easily collapses into a nice single syllable portmanteau that makes communication simple and concise; the language evolves and a new word is born.

I wasn't attacking you, or even referring to you as a dev, though it would have been a fair assumption regardless given the topic at hand.

I also wasn't claiming 'hard labor' is better or anything, just that there is a large discrepancy between the quality of life and work of the jobs the article is referring to and the jobs that the majority of people actually work.

Many software developers need perspective on the privilege they have, this is coming from someone who has worked a variety of jobs in different industries, attended trade school and university, and is currently a developer.

Fwiw I was generally agreeing with you.

Generally green means go and red means no-go, regardless of which is the desired outcome.

devs are such babies. I went to school and got licensed as an a&p (9 part proctored exam with written, practical, and oral components) and was working in the weather for $16 an hour, working my way up and dodging layoffs (which dont make it in the news because blue collar) to 25 an hour after years and years.

This is working as an aircraft mechanic, at various levels. This is a high hazard environment filled with carcinogens (solvents like methyl ethyl ketone), fall hazards, operating heavy equipment.

I got qualifications like engine run and taxi qualifications that result in $0.25 raises.

Mandatory overtime, busting knuckles, freezing in the cold, boiling in the heat, standing on concrete all day.

Oh and if I fuck up, planes crash, people die, and I go to jail.

I got a job as a software developer in the same area working for a medium sized company no one has heard of (300 person engineering department) and I work 8 hours a week, with no deadlines, at home, and make 3 times the salary. The worst I have to do with is identity politics and stupid meetings, 🤷.

These jobs are absolutely dream jobs for people who have perspective on what bad jobs actually are.

I think mostly people are defending themselves, when Linux people jump on the harassment train, it's just that, harassment.

Given that non-competes were already hard to enforce and engineers (or any staff role) can easily answer no to questions like "are you an executive?" I don't think it's going to be hard.