as someone who works in tech, the number of people who think they know about tech and are actually completely full of shit dramatically outweighs the people who donât work in tech and do know what theyâre talking about. it can take a lot of energy to differentiate the 2 groups
dunning krueger is at play a lot, because most people use a computer every day and think they know everything about the internet because they know what DNS stands for and typed a command to flush the DNS cache this one time and it worked
This mirrors the experience of anyone who has studied linguistics.
Because everyone speaks at least one language fluently, they tend to assume that they understand how languages work, while having zero awareness of the fact that people have spent generations studying language and communication at the PhD level and that almost nothing about what we reflexively intuit about language actually holds true.
And I say this as a purely amateur linguistics nerd who does not claim any real formal expertise in terms of academic credentials.
Yeah, you canât really fake experience either. I recently joined a group of guys who clearly have had plenty of real world experience in the kinds of things I have, and just talking shop is refreshing. Havenât had that ability for a long time.
If someone like her showed up in my team, and sheâs able to talk the talk, I wouldnât need any further validation and itâd be fun to hear the kinds of things sheâs worked on.
Funnily enough, a woman is joining this all-guy group soon and Iâm told sheâs really good, so I get to do exactly that.
Donât exhaust yourself, just assume that everyone who thinks they know about tech does. Theyâll prove themselves wrong very quickly if necessary and you eliminate the risk of getting owned by a VS model.
except when you waste a crap load of time figuring something out only to realise that the person that says âit canât be Xâ didnât actually know that it was in fact X
⊠this is why you donât argue with ISP support when they tell you to reboot your router: just do it; they donât know that youâve done that before you call them, and you telling them thatâs not the problem is not going to change anything⊠itâs not because they donât believe you specifically, itâs because they just canât trust that everyone knows what theyâre talking about
the same goes for most IT problems⊠it saves time in the long run to just assume people donât know what theyâre doing, because problems and systems are both complex and dynamic
Re ISP support: It depends on the support desk person youâre talking to. Iâve talked to idiots who have no clue what theyâre doing and thus canât tell if you do. Iâve also talked to people who clearly knew a lot and could tell I knew enough to make the claims I was making. I obviously prefer the latter. Shame all support canât be that and usually is just a complete layperson following a script. Deviating from that script at all makes them uncomfortable
that kind of reboot doesnât do everything⊠turning the power off for 30sec completely discharges the capacitors in the power supply, as well as leaving time for things in the exchange to time out and reset
itâs a quick way of solving a mountain of issues, both client side and ISP side
some ISPs do have a script, some have better support than that but rebooting is a good strategy for a huge number of things because IT systems are just so complex
This is true, but also IT is a huge place there is an insane amount to learn. So really you spend an incredible amount of time in the âvalley of despairâ. Basically anyone who brags about their skills is VERY suspect. This person is an iOS developer, which is a great career, but the title of the article is phrased like she was at least Linus Torvalds. Iâm sure she had little say in this, but whilst a reaction like this is never justified I can see why people made fun of it. Also it was clearly written by someone who has no idea what the words mean. Unless Iâm mistaken MIPS is a cpu architecture, you canât program in it. You can write machine code âforâ it. So yeah I can see why people assumend these claims were lies.
They assumed these claims were lies because they are sexist.
I work in tech. I taught programming at university. And guys think I have no idea what I am talking about when I am the person correcting their f*ing babies homework. I had men come into my office asking me when the Sys Admin is back in office.
They assumed these claims were lies because they are sexist.
âŠwhich is stupid because you donât pick MIPS and ObjectiveC if youâre just flexing your hobby skills. From the language choice alone I knew she was a developer.
Well not really as such. MIPS is a CPU, yes it has microcode, but for argumentâs sake, letâs assume the person in the article is not a CPU designer. Iâm sure in the slightly sassy reply to internet trolls where he listed every achievement she could think of, being a CPU designer wouldâve been mentioned.
So you can write program FOR a microprocessor. You can either do it in a very low level way, for example writing assembly or even byte code to a CPU directly, or in a very (well relatively) high level way, for example the Net Yaroze development kit for the PS1 (I hope the ps1 WAS a MIPS. The PS2 definitely was). Basically saying that you can âProgram in MIPSâ makes no sense as such, and to anyone who knows almost anything this hurts the credibility of the article simply.
as someone who works in tech, the number of people who think they know about tech and are actually completely full of shit dramatically outweighs the people who donât work in tech and do know what theyâre talking about. it can take a lot of energy to differentiate the 2 groups
dunning krueger is at play a lot, because most people use a computer every day and think they know everything about the internet because they know what DNS stands for and typed a command to flush the DNS cache this one time and it worked
This mirrors the experience of anyone who has studied linguistics.
Because everyone speaks at least one language fluently, they tend to assume that they understand how languages work, while having zero awareness of the fact that people have spent generations studying language and communication at the PhD level and that almost nothing about what we reflexively intuit about language actually holds true.
And I say this as a purely amateur linguistics nerd who does not claim any real formal expertise in terms of academic credentials.
I feel personally attacked lol
I feel dumb.
Repeat after me : âitâs always DNSâ
Same. And Iâve dated a Denise. Not easy to forget.
Yeah, you canât really fake experience either. I recently joined a group of guys who clearly have had plenty of real world experience in the kinds of things I have, and just talking shop is refreshing. Havenât had that ability for a long time.
If someone like her showed up in my team, and sheâs able to talk the talk, I wouldnât need any further validation and itâd be fun to hear the kinds of things sheâs worked on.
Funnily enough, a woman is joining this all-guy group soon and Iâm told sheâs really good, so I get to do exactly that.
Donât exhaust yourself, just assume that everyone who thinks they know about tech does. Theyâll prove themselves wrong very quickly if necessary and you eliminate the risk of getting owned by a VS model.
except when you waste a crap load of time figuring something out only to realise that the person that says âit canât be Xâ didnât actually know that it was in fact X
⊠this is why you donât argue with ISP support when they tell you to reboot your router: just do it; they donât know that youâve done that before you call them, and you telling them thatâs not the problem is not going to change anything⊠itâs not because they donât believe you specifically, itâs because they just canât trust that everyone knows what theyâre talking about
the same goes for most IT problems⊠it saves time in the long run to just assume people donât know what theyâre doing, because problems and systems are both complex and dynamic
Re ISP support: It depends on the support desk person youâre talking to. Iâve talked to idiots who have no clue what theyâre doing and thus canât tell if you do. Iâve also talked to people who clearly knew a lot and could tell I knew enough to make the claims I was making. I obviously prefer the latter. Shame all support canât be that and usually is just a complete layperson following a script. Deviating from that script at all makes them uncomfortable
Nah, ISP support (and many other support) just have a script they have to go through on every call.
I agree that rebooting your electronic device will fix a lot of issues.
But if those from support were actually any good, they would just reboot your router remotely.
that kind of reboot doesnât do everything⊠turning the power off for 30sec completely discharges the capacitors in the power supply, as well as leaving time for things in the exchange to time out and reset
itâs a quick way of solving a mountain of issues, both client side and ISP side
some ISPs do have a script, some have better support than that but rebooting is a good strategy for a huge number of things because IT systems are just so complex
This is true, but also IT is a huge place there is an insane amount to learn. So really you spend an incredible amount of time in the âvalley of despairâ. Basically anyone who brags about their skills is VERY suspect. This person is an iOS developer, which is a great career, but the title of the article is phrased like she was at least Linus Torvalds. Iâm sure she had little say in this, but whilst a reaction like this is never justified I can see why people made fun of it. Also it was clearly written by someone who has no idea what the words mean. Unless Iâm mistaken MIPS is a cpu architecture, you canât program in it. You can write machine code âforâ it. So yeah I can see why people assumend these claims were lies.
They assumed these claims were lies because they are sexist.
I work in tech. I taught programming at university. And guys think I have no idea what I am talking about when I am the person correcting their f*ing babies homework. I had men come into my office asking me when the Sys Admin is back in office.
âŠwhich is stupid because you donât pick MIPS and ObjectiveC if youâre just flexing your hobby skills. From the language choice alone I knew she was a developer.
MIPS is processing speed. Definitely needs programming
MIPS is a CPU architecture.
But it needs programming right?
Yes, but I wouldnât recommend it.
(I didnât enjoy Assembly in college and I havenât written it since)
This is one of the problems I find with computers. Same acronyms meaning different things
Million Instructions Per Second
Microprocessor Interlocked Pipeline Stages
Both relate to processors and itâs dumb
Well not really as such. MIPS is a CPU, yes it has microcode, but for argumentâs sake, letâs assume the person in the article is not a CPU designer. Iâm sure in the slightly sassy reply to internet trolls where he listed every achievement she could think of, being a CPU designer wouldâve been mentioned.
So you can write program FOR a microprocessor. You can either do it in a very low level way, for example writing assembly or even byte code to a CPU directly, or in a very (well relatively) high level way, for example the Net Yaroze development kit for the PS1 (I hope the ps1 WAS a MIPS. The PS2 definitely was). Basically saying that you can âProgram in MIPSâ makes no sense as such, and to anyone who knows almost anything this hurts the credibility of the article simply.