“Of the same order as the impossibility of rediscovering an absolute level of the real, is the impossibility of staging an illusion. Illusion is no longer possible, because the real is no longer possible. It is the whole political problem of the parody, of hypersimulation or offensive simulation, which is posed here.”
-Jean Baudrillard
Watching people grovel when the social media mobs come for them is disgusting. I do not grovel. There is nothing anyone can do to make me do this. Ever. Not after what I’ve lived through.
If you expect me to grovel, what you’ll actually get is me showing up in the middle of the night in your bedroom with a knife and camo paint on my face.
I could never do something like pair programming because by far I think better by myself. I become 1/10 as effective and intelligent when I am forced to do something cognitively challenging with someone else. It doesn’t matter how well I know them or how much I trust them. It’s just not something I can do or want to do.
People who call the Green New Deal "Ruinously Expensive" have apparently not looked at the cost of relocating the eastern seabord inland.
— Alex Wild (@Myrmecos) February 8, 2019
Yeah, that makes me laugh. If you think the GND is pricy just wait till you get the bill for not doing it. It’s like thinking a set of new tires is too expensive to buy to replace your bald, cracking ones. And then your whole family dies in a crash because of those “too expensive” tires.
That’s where we find ourselves now. (What’s really too expensive is that it’ll make some rich people less rich.)
HTML, CSS and our vanishing industry entry points.
It is quite sad to see. Bootcamps are better than nothing, and I don’t believe everyone needs a CS degree to work in my field (I certainly don’t and never will have one), but I’ve dealt with people who go through bootcamps for various certifications and they don’t have much domain knowledge at all.
They don’t understand how TCP/IP works, or even know what it is. They don’t know how a CPU works. They don’t know how to do much at the command line, if anything. They don’t know how to do a packet capture. Their troubleshooting skills are de minimis. If it’s not a Google result, they can never fix anything.
This generally isn’t true of those who are self-taught, who learned on HTML and CSS or more specific to my area, on older computers where you had complete control and where if you broke it, you fixed it.
My field is corporatizing and getting more boring, and the people less competent because they simply are unable to learn more as there is no path to doing so.