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Old, but fun read that argues that today's programmers are not like typical Engineers and shouldn't really call themselves that as Engineering requires certification, is subject to government regulation, bear a burden to the public, etc.

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[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

It's not just tech bros, it's the whole approach - weird names, version numbers turning into marketing tool instead of just numbers, attempts to hype up things that shouldn't be hyped up.

When I was a kid in Russia in year 2003 (suppose), it was associated with everything Chinese. But then Windows Vista and iPhone and what not ... came into normality. And now everything, not just toys produced in China, is something made of plastic and intended to break next day and be unfixable.

I'm torn between two things - one is to accept life as it is, because that's truth, and another is that in future of my dreams we'd have good, reliable things, their price and availability helped by scientific and industrial development.

I guess what one can wish is for the developing world to finally develop in all its parts sufficiently to make the current paradigm of a few manufacturing countries making everything for the rest of the world, but using IP of a few designing countries, unworkable.

Decentralization and competitiveness help everyone.

I think IP and patent laws have been a tool to create stagnation. You won't make Spectrum-like machines for kids in school, when you can have something from the Intel+AMD/ARM-ASML-TSMC ecosystem. And if you don't accept US and EU and in general European world's IP and patent laws, you'll get practically embargoed. And those are close to legalized monopoly. And without breaking a lot of patents, even trying to build a competition to ASML and TSMC in like 40 years is going to be a few orders of magnitude less possible than with breaking them (still not very likely).

So what I'm trying to say - Speccy is probably not something to aim for now, it's not problematic, just no demand. But aiming for something like Sun equipment of year 1997 would be a good idea. If hardware of that level were produced on scale in a few bigger countries, like Brazil or India or even China, it would make a lot of difference. I know China has Loongson. On scale.