• Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radio
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    Wow.

    I’ve been processing a couple of billion rows of data on my machine, the fans didn’t even come on. WTF are they teaching “experts” these days, or has Elmo only hired people who claim that they can “wrangle data” and say “yes” ?

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      Even if querying data was processing-heavy and even if somehow the ‘hard drive’ got warm during this, then there still would need to be a hardware defect in order for the drive to overheat.

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        Yes, but this may be a symptom of an issue I’ve been seeing with younger programmers; they’ve siloed themselves so specifically into whatever programming they “specialize” in, that they become absolutely useless at dealing with absolutely anything else related to their job. And exasperating this issue is the fact that they’ve grown up with systems that “just work”. Windows, iOS, and android are all at the point where fucking around with hardware issues is very uncommon for the average person.

        Asking this guy to solve a hardware problem is like asking hime to tune a carburetor. He likely has not the slightest clue how to start.

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          That’s the price of specialization. Don’t ask a software engineer to troubleshoot hardware. Don’t ask a backend dev to write a frontend. Don’t ask a proctologist to look at your cough.

          You simply cannot be proficient at every sub-sub-specialty. That’s why we collaborate and hand the ‘my computer gets hot’ problems to the hardware people. The alternative would be only moderately useful generalist.

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            I’m not asking everyone to be able to become a hardware specialist, but if you can’t even figure out “my computer gets hot” I’m not going to be able to trust anything you do. Identifying a heat issue does not take a rocket surgeon.

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        If it was an nvme ssd i could almost believe it. Some come with totally underspecced heatsinks

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      has Elmo only hired people who claim that they can “wrangle data” and say “yes” ?

      There’s two issues going on:

      1. Elmo’s sociopathic approach to laying people off is public knowledge, and top experts have the luxury of not even applying for his jobs.
      2. Elmo’s ability to judge engineering talent has likely been wildly exaggerated thanks to how he has successfully bought organizations full of talented people, in the past.
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        Hey! Thats offensive to 19-25 year olds, there are many who just finished college/university and are more than aware.

        They’re just role playing like in movies, with no idea of the consequences.

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          How on earth is it offensive to say they’re “not experts”? They’re not prodigies with PhDs. These specific young men are just technical enough and ideologically aligned.

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            Except they’re not, as you will know their tweet would be false after your first year of any technical (IT oriented) education.

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              First year? That shit is like A+ cert level knowledge or below, and A+ is damn near worthless. They would know that in the first few hours of a study guide

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                I was being generous when you consider the people in school who somehow pass, even when they don’t know a thing 🥲

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                Apologies, if I came over as hostile. I did not get your meaning through text.

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                Even then, no. These were all obviously nepotism hires who would not have otherwise qualified.

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                  Meh, some of them won some hackathons and scholarships, it’s pretty clear they’re otherwise at least somewhat bright but they don’t have any relevant domain knowledge.

                  In other words, the type of person most likely to be prone to hubris and catastrophic failures.

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            Your original comment was ambiguous as to if being an “expert” and “being 19-25” are mutually exclusive.

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        There is nothing wrong with being 19-25. There’s something wrong with being wholly incompetent.

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          There’s not really anything wrong with being incompetent, so long as you have the humility to admit it and learn from people who know better, and try not to cause harm. That’s not Musk’s minions though.

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            I think it’s important to differentiate incompetence from ignorance. Ignorance is not knowing. Incompetence is not being able to fulfill the requirements for your assigned task. If you cannot fulfill the requirements for your given task, then you should not be given said task.

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        Bunch of 1337 hax0rs script kiddies who don’t understand anything but they suck elon’s balls or something idk.

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      You have to understand that the average Trump voter probably knows everything they know about computers from watching the ‘wacky-zaney hacker with personality issues/quirks’ “hack” into things by tippity tapping their fingies on a keyboard in your average copaganda performance.

      This is something those types of people will believe.