This is been my anecdotal experience.
In the UK, I note that politicians extolling the efficiency of the private sector rarely have any substantial experience in big companies.
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In the UK, I note that politicians extolling the efficiency of the private sector rarely have any substantial experience in big companies.
If/when we reach a point of extreme tension with tit for tat cyber attacks, would Western countries be totally incapacitated for days or weeks while Russia or China were less impacted? Things like food supply, public services etc.
Perhaps such things would escalate so quickly that the internet would be the least of our worries.
I’d love to hear what people think about this. To me it’s notable that Russia and China have taken steps to separate their internet access from the wider, global network. While the West continues to centralise its network access in the hands of a few companies. Presumably this makes Russia and China more protected from attacks on the global network.
Am I correct in thinking in this way? Could Russia and China continue with internal internets even if the global one went down, or are they actually as at risk as anyone else? I’m guessing that China’s censorship systems and firewalls are fairly centralised and so vulnerable in their own way.
I’ve never really understood the rage the licence fee provokes in a certain type of voter and I have little faith that any replacement proposed by this government will be an improvement.
Perhaps part of you views it as “idiotic” because it is reluctant to address it?
I really like the look of Oxford’s computer science courses, but that’s partly because of the theoretical/philosophical bent to them.
The other evening I did a small amount of work on a compiler I’m making and for ages all I could think was “compilers! So cool! Making those basic blocks! Yeah!”.
It would be cool if I had a dream where I intuitively understood whatever I was designing, but my dreams aren’t that insightful…
When the author talked about reading the entire GNU Screen manual I did think “this sounds like stressful overkill” for a personal project, but I see their point about focusing on process rather than goal.
Does it ever really matter than personal projects don’t get finished?
If I move again, I plan to stay at least five years for the reasons in this thread.
But employers sometimes forget that even current employees are still operating in the jobs market.
The ones that seem worse to me are the ones saying “don’t worry about school, we’ll get you a job in the family business”. Maybe they’re financially more secure, but they’re hardly giving their kids much of a chance.
When children are constantly receiving the message “school is a waste of time, don’t bother trying” it’s exceptionally difficult for teachers to overcome that in class.
Politically no one wants to grasp it because conservatives like to talk about parental choice, as if every parent is well-informed and usefully involved, while the left doesn’t want to accept that some people won’t help themselves.
This then perpetuates from generation to generation, people see the success of immigrant children whose parents value education, resentment grows etc etc.
I have numerous friends who are teachers and they all consistently say that the biggest problem is poor parenting. Primarily disengaged parents or parents who don’t value education.
Of course this is the elephant in the room because no politician is going to blame parents.
It seems to me that all the chat up-thread about schooling vouchers and parental choice are entirely missing the point. The children of engaged parents will probably do ok anyway. It’s the bad parents that are the problem.
Mass education is still a relatively new thing. Has there ever been a time when we successfully taught that to the large majority of children? Part of me wonders whether it is a reasonable goal. I don’t think the UK ever achieved the equivalent.
Anyway, the main insight I wanted to agree with is the realisation that much of your self-aware cognition is more like mental froth.
Learning to observe your own thought processes is incredibly helpful and might help OP to understand their underlying mental behaviours.
Why do you say this? If you implement it via AI then sure, but I’ve done plenty of process automation without needing a strong mathematical background.
What I have in mind is speaking to business people to understand what they do, learn what the business rules are and write systems that implement those flows (and hopefully skip steps that are actually redundant).
Perhaps you meant something else?
I switched careers, spent a lot of time on learning to code and am a great developer but have to work alongside people who have a CS degree but consistently write poorly-designed spaghetti code.
Boot camp graduates probably do drag down the average competence level a bit, but it was already shockingly low.
The absolute worst is the macOS Music app, which doesn’t seem to allow basic things such as dragging from search results to playlists.
I’m wondering why Fortran is dominant in physics yet APL in finance.
Now I see it being used in relationship advice subreddits and agony aunt columns to basically mean “don’t dare disagree with me” when someone decides that they were the victim in some some dispute.
For me, I can remember:
- objects are closures and closures are objects - properly getting the JS asynchrony model - pointers and the whole memory addressing model - HTTP being stateless
I must have had an early epiphany with function return values, since I remember not writing functions correctly at first, but I don’t remember the actual epiphany.