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“We are gonna use MechaHitler for good we promise”

It sounds plausible!

I think I’m supposed to say “gl” and then the vocal equivalent of “asdfasdfasdf”

All English town names, by spite and ignorance but mostly spite.

Oh, I am not pronounching “Glouchestershire” correctly? SPELL it correctly then!

There is no one solution that applies to multiple unspecified problems.

Pick a specific one if you want actual discussions and answers.

The (true) joke at the time was that it was like a swimming pool with a little corner marked “no peeing zone”.

Well yeah, he already ordered police to fire rubber coated steel slugs at press and protesters in Washington, killing and maiming several US citizens.

Shapez 2

It will feel mundane and we will be mostly concerned with daily struggles.

Remember that we’re living in our predecessors exciting future.

Yeah I don’t think we actually disagree much here. :)

I think my angle is just slightly different? I see that ease of access (eg cloud) make it possible for a lot more uncurious and clock-out people to enter the field and pass as competent. To be honest, even the modest introduction of auto-formatting editors are easy to see as good and useful, but I also feel that they allowed shoddy work to look passable at first glance. AI will make this a lot worse.

But as for the actual people who have it in them to be competent, people that were always there and still are, cloud is not going to make them worse.

Oh, nice! I had the same question in my head a few times, so going to check out Piefed.

Sometimes it’s the noise of tagalong comments, and sometimes it’s discussing with rude or unhinged people where I really try to be helpful and polite with them but fuck if I want to get upset during my bedtime poop session by getting a notification and reading what they have to say.

Sorry if I missed it, but did he have any thoughts on the 40th anniversary edition?

The Steam trailers don’t make it look good. High-fidelity models with low-fidelity movement kida graphics that feels off-putting and disconnected. Like the HoMM HD remake or the hi-res Minecraft graphics mods.

I don’t think Russia’s first target if they ever manage to attack deeper into Europe will be France, the nation with “nuclear warning shot” in their nuclear weapons doctrine.

I understand.

Obviously, “knowing which cloud services to enable” is a lesser skill than knowing how those services work. That is not a parallel or equal skill in any way.

But do you assume people are just going drrrrr brain off when they don’t learn that one skillset you are accustomed to spotting?

You are making strong assumptions on her motivations, and then judging those motivations as stupid. Her sins are in your imagination only.

Alternative reading: A cool lady who does what makes her happy and give zero fucks if she confuses people.

Or alternatively: A lady and I do not need to have opinions on her, really.

Good. Creep pics of strangers is fucking disgusting.

Yeah I can see that.

However, you are now arguing a different point than I am getting from your original post. Maybe my fault in interpretation ofc, but the main difference (in my view) is:

You say “incompetent” and “less skilled” as general statements on senior engineers. Those statements are false.

You also say “missing the skills you are looking for” which is obviously true.

And the implication that before cloud, people developed the specific skills you need more naturally - because they had to. This makes sense and I believe it.

That being said, I am genuinely frustrated by how little people know or care about the plumbing these days. :D

I am so fucking tired of seeing someone spin up 3 cloud databases for what could be a 40k in-memory hashtable.

That is technically correct in a way, but I’ll argue very wrong in a meaningful way.

Cloud services are meant to let you focus less on the plumbing, so naturally many skills in that will not be developed, and skills adjacent to it will be less developed.

Buttttt you must assume effort remains constant!

So you get to focus more on other things now. E.g. functional programming, product thinking, rapid prototyping, API stuff, breadth of languages, etc. I bet the seniors you are missing X and Y in have bigger Zs and also some Qs that you may not be used to consider, or have the experience to spot and evaluate.