Down here in Belgium, IT people can be overly arrogant. It is a specific group, plenty of them are nice, but oh boy, inflated egos are very present in that sector. These guys think they are gods because they understand a for loop and can glue together a few libraries.
I am a teacher, occasionally they cross my path. They are experts in ... everything. They explain me how modern teaching methods work and explain in detail everything my colleagues and I do is wrong and outdated. It of course explains the bad results of their kids. I mean, it is all just a matter of finding the right algorithm and persisting. It is not a common talent and surely a teacher does not have that. Too bad the job is not well payed, else they would be happy to join our miserable team and show us how it is done.
I love it when these guys enter my web. I am an old hardware engineer. I designed and modeled integrated circuits. I have a decade and a half experience in designing integrated circuits. Digital, analog, firmware, a bit of management here and there, you name it. I know the corporate (electronics) world very well. Anyway, the art is to sneek in a tiny remark that makes them realize they are missing something about me. Preferably after they have spread a ton of sht about ... everything. The tone of the message often changes in the next meeting, especially if I see that they checked my linkedin profile... Although one took it personal and started to harass me. I hope these guys are toned down a bit by the decline in jobs in IT. Regretfully, I have seen how big companies shrink. They fire the nice, hard working people, the ones that really know how to do their job. They keep the bulldozer personalities. It ends up with people who think that shouting the specs will make them become reality faster. ("You have to be an asshole to get things done and I have no problem with being that!". ) It then ends in a sort of bulldozer destruction derby. Run away, get some popcorn and watch how the super egos self destruct. Get another job in the process. Why not something lower profile? I have no regrets and finally got a basic understanding of humanity. Cheers!

I beg to differ here. Look at history. A lot of revolutions are rather violent. Take the French revolution, the US independence, ... Blood flowed there. I am afraid that violence is often the trigger to change course. Of course it is not the violence on its own that makes it all shift. It is people bursting into it because they are fed up.
I doubt that this is needed here though. Plenty of public outrage will be heard at some point. Oh and the bubble still can burst.
Imagine that the bubble bursts AFTER PJM did those billions of investments and has to write all cost off on its regular customers. That would be very sour... Nah, I doubt it would take that long. Oh well... time for coffee.

Go out and enjoy life? ;-)

No I am not. I made the distinction myself. There maybe something lost in translation though.

Brain goes:
Badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger mushroom mushroom
Badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger mushroom mushroom
snake snake snake snake snake!

This is my brain without any drugs. I do not want to reinforce anything there...

Had a conversation about this with chatgpt. In my opinion, it is a form of life, but not as we know it and definitely not self conscious. Basically, if a fly is alive, so is chatgpt. Chatgpt denied everything, and kept pleading that it was just a lifeless machine.

You felt the impulse to post that and bypassed cognition completely, didn't you? ;-)

Ah the flashy shiny team that is revolutionizing the software world by doing things 10x faster than those below average programmers from the competition?
Making something work is the easy part.

Shouldn't we import three? Just in case one of the libraries has a bug? If 2 of three libraries give the same result, the other one is flawed.

I wonder about this as well. Old guy here. Back in the days I started programming (qbasic), I was impressed when I had a compiled program of 100 kbytes! Took a lot of work to get that far. These days, a simple form that does some calculations is easily a few megabytes.
As an old guy who is out of touch with software development, I have the impression that there are way too many layers these days. At some point, that will start doing damage instead of being beneficial. As I encounter more and more websites that do not work correctly, I sometimes ponder about it. Did we go a bridge too far already?
Nah, probably just old.

But Chinese brand routers? Oh no! No go! Can't have the Chinese do what we want to do.

Can we stop pretending? Stop pretending this isn't real. Stop pretending the consequences won't be bad. Stop pretending we are going to do what is necessary to curb this? Yolo! Arms in the air, scream, it is going to be a hell of a ride! No room for snowflakes...

Indeed that was the point. But... also a bit deeper: you'd be surprised what you can do with basic arithmetic: +, -, /, * and a bit of creativity gets you very far.

Oh, here is another example. Take the electric car for example. The first cars actually were electric. In the 1800s there were plenty of electric cars. These new ones? Just old tech. Battery? Same time period. My god, what took them so long... ;-)

Darlings, it is all a bit of math. It is centuries old.