And right on queue.

the potential of accumulating society’s knowledge and being able to present that to people in an understandable way.

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energy/efficiency advances

About that.

They hate the same people he does, and that camaraderie matters more to them than being robbed and trafficked to South Sudan by mistake.

There’s no conflict at all. Having their home foreclosed and watching their family starve in the streets is just the price they gotta pay for keeping single-digit numbers of trans people out of track and field.

“I don’t know what you got to do or what you got to have to be able to be declared for a federal disaster area because this is pretty bad,” Tylertown resident Brian Lowery said. “We can’t help you because, whatever, we’re waiting on a letter; we’re waiting on somebody to sign his name. You know, all that. I’m just over it.”

This dude is primed to be convinced that all the bureaucracy getting in his way is the fault of the Shadow Democrats and Mecha Biden.

Don’t have to vote for him to support him. Retweet him, echo his bullshit, etc.

I thought it would be Swen making the comment, happily surprised to see it’s someone else at Larian.

I’m so glad I have hobby projects where I can do just that, but software engineering has stopped being a profession I look at with pride. Everything is broken by design and costs a fortune at the same time.

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(and sometimes newer)

My God man, say it louder for the folks in the back. A 21 year old answer, heck even an 8 year old answer like OP said, might not STILL be the best answer in the current age. Technology evolves, new languages get invented, old languages gain some new features, and all of that happens at a rapid pace.

I get super dismayed using SO and seeing the top answer predates Rust. (Note I don’t mean to say Rust is always the answer, but that Rust is already 13 years old. Things change.)

which kinda sucks

So climate change collapse in the next 10 years, rather than the next 30. Great, thanks AI. I hope you all have fun reasoning your way around keeping the power plants and data centers running through Category 7 hurricanes and wildfires the size of Pennsylvania, without any humans to clean up the damage.

No worries mate. :)

I didn’t say anything about the quality of Romanian engineers, nor Indian nor Nigerian for that matter. The worker, regardless of nationality, is not who I’m railing against.

Counterpoint: Nigeria is in the same time zone as Germany.

And even that isn’t important. Its part of the veneer. The outsourcing spree of the late 00’s/early 10’s created an intense distrust of outsourcing that persists today in the IT industry. That’s why he avoids saying India, he wants to have his cake (cheap labor) and eat it too (not resalt old wounds). But when the chips are down, all those benefits of same time zone collaboration and EU partnership will go out the window if they think it’s the only way to increase revenue.

Edit: I was slightly mistaken on the dynamic here, but I still think the guy is a ghoul exploiting people for their labor.

It’s so shameless innit? He puts on the veneer of caring about quality, but then gives up the game by admitting the real goal is the cheapest labor possible coughslaverycough. Why stop at Romania if you want cheap labor? Just outsource it all to India or Nigeria, we all know you would do it in a heartbeat if your precious quarterly profits were on the line.

Edit: didn’t realize the guy was Romanian so at least the shilling makes more sense, but I still get the feeling he’s not doing his employees any favors.

Yeah I’ll admit “escape” didn’t do me any favors LOL, but I meant it more in the context of my family and the difference in social mobility. Factories can be, and ought to be, great places to work, I just don’t think a person can do that work for their entire life. Just like a factory should be a great place to work, it should also be possible for people to find other places to work.

By the way, it’s nice to be able to talk about it without it getting hostile in the way social media tends to do. :)

Can’t wait to meet the successor to M1 Abrams: the M2 Sad Tin Can.

Sorry this comment is a doozy, I had a lot on my mind with it lol

While I agree with you, I did not come away from that article with the same conclusion. Nowhere in that article did the SOC mention supporting strong labor protections or progressive labor policy.

In fact, we know from experience that Republicans hate those things, because they’re backed by wealthy industrialists. This is absolutely crucial: the things that would make factory work a worthwhile career, like good wages, lots of PTO time, safe workplaces, low pollution, retirement funds, etc are not only expensive to capitalists, they are also the things people need in order to leave a factory job.

Our hypothetical factory worker is happy, but he’s getting older, slowing down, his hands hurt from all the work, its unavoidable. So he wants to move up the corporate ladder and into positions that require more soft skills. To that end, he pursues higher education, which requires money and time off. And once he gets his degree and reaches the top of this corporate ladder, he can now transfer his very desirable skills to new jobs, new industries, maybe even white collar work.

You see how this is at odds with Lutnick’s vision of intergenerational factory workers? Like, this utopia I’ve just laid out is not what he’s selling. He’s selling the complete destruction of class mobility. He wants people who can’t leave their jobs, who can’t pursue better prospects, and who can’t create a better life for their family. He wants your children to know “you will never amount to anything more than your father, or your grandfather.”

And that’s very appealing to the factory owner. He doesn’t have to maintain a safe workplace, because the alternative is jobless and homeless. He doesn’t have to pay a dignified wage, he doesn’t have to schedule work around your vacation time, and he won’t have to pay for the tools you need to escape. And, the cherry on top, he has the next two generations of workers lined up, learning from Pops!

I grew up watching my father go from field technician, to night school bachelor’s student, to software engineer. I saw my uncle become a car mechanic, stay a car mechanic, and is now too old to keep working but doesn’t have enough saved for retirement. My grandfather worked in a glass cutting factory. Believe me, I’m not shitting on factory work. I’m shitting on the people who want to create shitty factory work. And the article is very captivated by the guy who wants to create shitty factory work.

At least your mistake was mostly just a factual error and fairly easy to correct. The person you were commenting to though… I don’t even know where to begin.

Fucking… geography, is why we joined WWII? Really? And everything else is just a screed, it’s not even worth reading.