i spent like 6 hours yesterday reinstalling my os because a power outage rawdogged my filesystem in an unrecoverable way. the love hate relationship is inevitable.
I'm not a programmer, but I've been in tech most of my life and i fucking hate computers and i wish i had any other skill whatsoever to utilize to get the fuck out of this hellish industry
I think it is more boring and stupid. The tech industry has engineers and scientists who builds stuff but the executive controlling it, the public using it and politicians regulating it insists to believe that a magic genie lives inside the computer.
Sometimes the genie is benevolent and can fix the economy, answer all your questions with absolute certainty, fix every social problem and rid you of the burden of having to enploy people to do stuff. Other times the genie is evil and he will tell the evil SeeSeePee everything about you and let Russia decide the outcome of the election.
But in any case the computer is magic and has unlimited abilities.
That's because most "software engineers" aren't actually engineers. They're more systems designers and analysts with a bit of programming knowledge and a little bit of a computer science background. Being a real engineer is very different.
Pretty sure you could word things similarly for every field that's around. I've yet to find a proper explanation for "software development is not engineering"
I think this is not true. When interviewed, people who have crossed over from ChemE/MechE/etc say it's engineering. We just iterate a lot faster because compiling is cheap and most software failures are cheap.
I think we rely too much on stereotypical ideas of what "real engineers" are doing, which can't be defined and generally don't stand up to scrutiny. For instance, is designing a processor in VHDL computer engineering or merely programming?
In this case I'm pretty sure it's some C level clown that pushed this through even if everyone told them "it's not ready" or "you need a larger model for this to work".
The people on the floor rarely get heard, they only get the blame.
Imagine a world in which we don't need musicians. You simply say, "Computer. Write me a song by Beethoven about leaving a dog in a hot car". The ultra-advanced AI will understand every nuance of what you mean. In mere seconds you'll have a fully customisable song from ANYONE about leaving a dog in a hot car. Want to insert a "happy birthday mom" message? Want to make it about YOU leaving the dog in the hot car? The possibilities are endless because we've democratised art.
What do you use for search? It seems like all the surviving search enginers are front-ends for google and the one that isn't is... it's bad. It's real bad.
idk, but here used to be cooking griddles you could attach to the engine of your car (well, trucks, really) and you'd put whatever in there with some water and it'd steam or cook your food while you drove. Like, put your hotdogs in, drive for an hour, check your hotdogs. Mostly for over the road truckers and road trips.
It’s not just wrong, it’s incredibly creative in the process of being wrong. Like someone asks you for a cookie recipe and you design a novel stapler that doesn’t work, it staples up instead of down