“Be gentle,” I whispered to the rock and let it go. It fell down and bruised my pinky toe. Very ungently.

Should we worry about this behavior of rock? I should write for Futurism.

Never have I felt so annoyed that my country isn’t part of EU. Wish I could give a vote.

I assume from the name that you’re the artist OP?

Really happy you keep posting it here :)

Even when the humor doesn’t land with me - today’s did though :D - the playful artstyle is a joy to watch.

Hatred is like a burning coal. It keeps me warm during cold nights.

You’d want to self-host your own custom blockchain, then. It’s going to be a hassle for everyone involved.

While that answer is correct, “professional help” isn’t a thing most people can just pick up from the grocery store, so to speak.

Knowing what type of help to ask for, getting affirmation that they need help at all, how to describe the problem, whether it has any other known names, etc are very valuable resources that people can only really get from asking friends or online forums.

I need to go through my GP to get “professional help”, and the waiting list for non-urgent appointments are 1-2 months. I would for sure be stuck for months or years in “stressed or burnt out maybe rest some” if I tried to bring up that my inner voice is mean to me.

If I went to my GP with the phrasing, clarity and clues I would get from answers in this thread, I might actually eventually get a psychiatrist.

Strong Mad

“We are gonna use MechaHitler for good we promise”

It sounds plausible!

I think I’m supposed to say “gl” and then the vocal equivalent of “asdfasdfasdf”

All English town names, by spite and ignorance but mostly spite.

Oh, I am not pronounching “Glouchestershire” correctly? SPELL it correctly then!

There is no one solution that applies to multiple unspecified problems.

Pick a specific one if you want actual discussions and answers.

The (true) joke at the time was that it was like a swimming pool with a little corner marked “no peeing zone”.

Shapez 2

It will feel mundane and we will be mostly concerned with daily struggles.

Remember that we’re living in our predecessors exciting future.

Yeah I don’t think we actually disagree much here. :)

I think my angle is just slightly different? I see that ease of access (eg cloud) make it possible for a lot more uncurious and clock-out people to enter the field and pass as competent. To be honest, even the modest introduction of auto-formatting editors are easy to see as good and useful, but I also feel that they allowed shoddy work to look passable at first glance. AI will make this a lot worse.

But as for the actual people who have it in them to be competent, people that were always there and still are, cloud is not going to make them worse.

Sorry if I missed it, but did he have any thoughts on the 40th anniversary edition?

The Steam trailers don’t make it look good. High-fidelity models with low-fidelity movement kida graphics that feels off-putting and disconnected. Like the HoMM HD remake or the hi-res Minecraft graphics mods.

I understand.

Obviously, “knowing which cloud services to enable” is a lesser skill than knowing how those services work. That is not a parallel or equal skill in any way.

But do you assume people are just going drrrrr brain off when they don’t learn that one skillset you are accustomed to spotting?

Yeah I can see that.

However, you are now arguing a different point than I am getting from your original post. Maybe my fault in interpretation ofc, but the main difference (in my view) is:

You say “incompetent” and “less skilled” as general statements on senior engineers. Those statements are false.

You also say “missing the skills you are looking for” which is obviously true.

And the implication that before cloud, people developed the specific skills you need more naturally - because they had to. This makes sense and I believe it.

That being said, I am genuinely frustrated by how little people know or care about the plumbing these days. :D

I am so fucking tired of seeing someone spin up 3 cloud databases for what could be a 40k in-memory hashtable.