People have to be interested in their jobs to care about it. Corporations know that people rarely get to do whatever they want, so they assume (correctly) that most workers do not care, so they move on to care about processes, workflows, which makes even less workers care about their jobs.
For individual workers, the best thing is to work @ something you love && get good pay. Like a compiler engineer, a kernel engineer, an AI engineer, etc.
- Requirements are rarely clear from the beginning;
- We (DE) are not enabling self-service and automation so we are drowned in small requests (add this column for example;
- Upstream rarely notify us about the changes so we only know when downstream alerts us. We end up building expensive pipelines to scan and send alerts. Sometimes the cost of alerts > cost of pipeline itself;
- We have so many ad-hoc requests that sprint is meaningless. If I were the manager I'd abolish sprint completely;
- Shadow knowledge that no one bothered to write down. I tried to write down as much as possible, but there are always more unknowns than knowns;
Working in DE definitely gives me enough motivation to teach myself about lower level CS.
That's why populist movements raise its head from time to time. It's the human's self-cleansing mechanism -- very damaging, and usually burn much more than necessary, but whatever.
Yeah you are right. Just checked out Lenovo ThinkPad L16 Gen 1 with 32GB ram and it costs 1,143 CAD (it's a deal but the original cost is still < 2,000 CAD). I was thinking more about workstations back then, but I probably don't need one TBH. I guess my X1 Carbon experience kinda tarnished my view of Lenovo laptops.
Thanks, looks like you know a lot about laptops. Do you have a review blog or something similar? I really need to read more reviews before my next purchase. I'm especially interested in the used market.
Thanks. I mostly purchase used computers from 1) Official refurb shops, or 2) My company, because I don't really have the confidence to check quality myself.
I think I'll eventually go for the more expensive route if I want another laptop. Either an Apple refurbed Macbook or some other Linux laptop.
Thanks, it sounds interesting. I don't really need the portability of a laptop I think. Whenever I get out, I'm usually with my family, so I actually got very little time spent on the laptop. Plus I have a few laptops already.
I'll check out those mini PCs. The Steam one also looks interesting.
For individual workers, the best thing is to work @ something you love && get good pay. Like a compiler engineer, a kernel engineer, an AI engineer, etc.
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