Just to warn you, networking is ultra-boring. Do you think software engineering is bad? Networking is worse. You don't really make everything - you spend most of your time trying to get configurations to work, working around bugs in firmware, or figuring out how some numbskull screwed up the various configs.

It is, basically, plumbing.

That's not to say it isn't important, but if you're actually good at software engineering you'll probably find networking ultra-tedious. Do you really want to learn the ins and outs of the OSI stack? All the weird things about hooking Cisco gear to other gear? Troubleshooting connectivity issues due to someone plugging a switch into itself?

Just writing about it makes me want to lobotomize myself.

These days you'd set a waypoint, send your drone off, and drive away. There's no RF to speak of, unless you're live-streaming it over LTE.

The biggest skill in C++ is how to read code that's got templates, generics, overloaded operators, and custom keywords.

"What do you mean they overloaded '+' to merge objects?"

"This doesn't look like C++, it looks like some foreign language."

"Oh, we reversed the meaning of + and - because the senior guy thought that the original semantics were incorrect. But only for some objects."

On a treadmill using an oculus!

Really, the main mental skills you need in tech are pretty simple: understanding the goal/problem, breaking a problem down into steps, then putting everything together at the end.

If someone can figure out how to take a meal, make a recipe that makes the meal, then follow the recipe to make a meal, they'll be mostly fine.

Program Executive Office-ENterprise Information Systems (PEO-ENIS). You know, for those Southern folks.

Lately, bridges seem to fall over because someone hits them, not because they're "crumbling infrastructure."

Do the authors really think satellites will help with collisions or crumbling? How about an annual or semi-annual inspection instead?

So, the voters of a state don't care enough about an issue to allow A to happen. The FCC claims authority over A and allows A. Why is this a good thing?

Nothing natural can do that on that scale. Wonder what it's trying to tell us?

Obviously it's all those souls trapped in the vault of heaven.

How do you pee if this is attached to you? Do you keep a bunch of one-gallon jugs next to your desk?

"Apple Watch's battery-life isn't what most people would consider impressive"

This is yet another bullshit clickbait statement. Never gotten below 30% on mine, even when my phone has run dry.

Flying to work isn't really a very practical commuting method, because my 747 won't fit in any of the spaces. Plus, what would I do with the crew?

As a note, the indian thing in the US wasn't an inquisition, it was a land grab. There's a difference.

The Jews are that way all over the world, so singling out the USA is a bit unfair. Today Jews run the country, so there you go.

Blacks were sold and enslaved by other blacks in Africa before they came to the US, and their old gods were obviously pretty pathetic. However, today there's nothing to prevent them from practicing Santeria or whatever they want.

Jews are people of the book, as said by Muhammad. Why should he be afraid to walk among Muslims?