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"content": "<p>The difference between blue collar and white collar jobs? That's obvious. </p><p>The difference between material engineering and computer engineering jobs? Frame of reference, I think. </p><p>Consider a Rocket Scientist and Computerist. If your job never requires you to ever be in the same room, building, city, state, country, or hemisphere (probably the same planet for speed-of-light issues), then you will have a different mindset. </p><p>Flexibility in outlook, perhaps?</p><p>I am a computerist. My day job, anyway. My avocation is author; I can do that anywhere, maybe one day on the moon.</p><p>Further consider these quotes:</p><p>“[...G]iven the scale of the resignations this week, they expect the platform to start breaking soon,” adding: “[T]he team that maintains Twitter’s core system libraries that every engineer at the company uses is gone after Thursday. ‘You cannot run Twitter without this team,’ the employee said.”</p><p> “I know of six critical systems (like ‘serving tweets’ levels of critical) which no longer have any engineers. There is no longer even a skeleton crew manning the system. It will continue to coast until it runs into something, and then it will stop.”</p><p>"...I wasn't sure that he understood that compared to rocket science, democracy is much more complicated."</p><p>Anonymous via Verge and NYT, and Sen. Ed Marky via Politico.</p><p>Let's be real.</p><p>As a developer, I know that systems can run forever if they are robustly built. Programs do not wear out like engines do. They encounter *untested situations* and *behave unexpectedly*. How good or bad that is *is* subjective, or objective if there is a spec. </p><p>Using a wood frame construction metaphor, it's the untrained fix-it crew that saw and nail and replace structural members without planning, understanding, or foresight that cause the termite-ridden house to collapse under it's own weight.</p><p><a href=\"https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RIPTwitter\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>RIPTwitter</span></a> <a href=\"https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Twitter\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>Twitter</span></a> <a href=\"https://eldritch.cafe/tags/computerscience\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>computerscience</span></a> <a href=\"https://eldritch.cafe/tags/elon\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>elon</span></a> <a href=\"https://eldritch.cafe/tags/remotejob\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>remotejob</span></a> <a href=\"https://eldritch.cafe/tags/remote\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>remote</span></a> <a href=\"https://eldritch.cafe/tags/computerist\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>computerist</span></a> <a href=\"https://eldritch.cafe/tags/author\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>author</span></a> <a href=\"https://eldritch.cafe/tags/novelist\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>novelist</span></a></p><p>----</p><p>On a personal note, I joined the Eldritch instance because I wanted to reply to Federated posts curated and IM'd to me by a friend, @Taur10 I didn't know that my getting an account would cause the collapse of Twitter. *Really sorry about that!*</p>",
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