I feel like the people I interact with irl don’t even know how to boot from a USB. People here probably know how to do some form of coding or at least navigate a directory through the command line. Stg I would bet money on the average person not even being able to create a Lemmy account without assistance.
Well that sometimes keeps the conversation clean though. Most computer people seem to be a little more intelligent than the average person.
Maybe they might be slightly above the norm in the past, regarding intelligence, but that bell curve flattened out in the early 2000’s. Shit, you rarely need to manage memory anymore.
Yeah. The modern breed of computer nerd seems to have adopted the aesthetics of rationalism and intelligence without actually interrogating the substance of those two traits, is a trend I’ve noticed a lot in the past few years.
You can’t have your cake and eat it too. You can’t be a good computer scientist if you’re not willing to engage with the discipline on a deeper - bordering on spiritual - level. All the early greats in compsci were steeped in the culmination of the past centuries of human philosophy and intuition. People like that have earned their arrogance and did not accept it willingly.
I think most people, generally, tend to vastly overestimate how good of an engineer they actually are. There’s a lot of reasons for this culture but I notice it seems to get worse over time, at least here in the West. The techbro stereotype exists for a reason. They can glean the sheer & audacious, almost cosmic gravity of what they work with and the concepts at hand, so they therefore feel valid in their pomp, yet fail to reflect personally on what any of it actually meant in the first place?
Dont worry, they make up for it with awful social skills.
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They’re trying to do a weird “gotcha” as if the use of a rhetorical “they” in this comment thread is in the weird anti-semitic/conspiracy theorist way rather than, ya know, computer nerds and techbros as it was clearly set to refer to in the original comments of the thread.
smh some people are either just shitposting 24/7/365 or literally cannot fucking read and I can’t decide which is scarier for society writ large.