42 year old engineer here … my entire career was disengaged

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God bless her 🙏 this is how we build Americans

In case we’re not aware already, these companies are building faster and bigger than the market can keep up with. They’re expecting a tremendous fallout likely within the next several years. The companies that remain will dominate this market indefinitely… for better or worse

I guess it’s inevitable that the USA must copy China’s approach to managing the internet… the existential crises are reaching a breaking point

I wonder how many Americans, while believing they are a sophisticated culture, understand this is a test of their common existential narrative… which is backward and evidence of an inability to scale given modernity

happy to be your hell, good citizen ☺️ I wish you the best

do we have to be burdened by western existential narratives vis a vis Orwellianism that don’t scale? seemingly, yes! society seemingly doesn’t scale gracefully … though China looks better-adapted to present reality

ah, and the challenges to scale once again hit the wall … they’ll have to use AI to police maintainers to keep them from using AI 😂

is emule still a thing…? cool 😎

the irony… 😂

ex land pirate here … we’d keep a map of the city on the wall for reference but it seemed like most of the drivers just remembered where places were if they’d been working there for any amount of time … I answered phones and made the pizzas when it was still ok to throw the dough up in the air, etc. fun job

I’m over twenty years deep. I had a friend who was always my go-to for technical problems with my windows laptop. He ended up becoming a technical support guy for windows shops. anyways, he mentioned Linux one day as I was babbling about file sharing during the Napster days. I went down the rabbit hole from there. I’ve been called a systems administrator, server administrator, systems engineer, DevOps engineer, etc as job titles. it clicked in my head how or why it worked and it felt liberating. I’m the grumpy guy scowling trying to figure out how your windows or Mac operating systems work like how normal people are trying to figure out how mine works.