The “tech” industry, whatever that means, has always had issues, of course, but the past five years at least has progressed into an almost daily feeling of “is this what it feels like to have a stroke”.
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mastodon 4.7.3Reliably engineers sites or services. Technically, managers programs. Used to help maintain some FAQs and worked at a department store/Bond villain lair. Any pronouns accepted. Formerly utterlymundane on the birdsite.
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@maya@social.seattle.wa.us every day I see something like this and feel a great weariness settle upon me
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@cstross it also provides a fig leaf of justification for a public SpaceX to shovel money to xAI when “because I want to” becomes harder to justify. They’ll need somebody to provide expert design partnership to solve these difficult technical problems. (Or the other way around if required.)
“This tool is helpful but requires a stupidly verbose json config whose format I do not control. I should make a simpler equivalent for the realistic subset I’m working with.” (Sane, helpful)
*I enter a fugue state and discover two thirds of a DSL in my editor* (Ok, clearly entertaining myself here, but valid)
*It’s in emacs lisp* (I have some sort of Disease)
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@queenofsquiggles@transfem.social the current market is… special… but I’d say that many places that are snobbish about self taught will *also* be snobbish about an associates degree. But if the college actually has internship or job placement programs that will be massively helpful in getting past the first hurdle.
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You’re pushing the wireless keyboard into the dusty behind-the-monitor cavern *wrong*