This sentiment is so incomplete as to be utterly useless outside of a very narrow scope.
Good engineers are right a lot very specifically within their technical competency.
Simply saying "good engineers are right a lot" has pretty clearly resulted in a large group of people who think that because they're right a lot about things within their field, that quality of 'being right a lot' extends to things outside of their field, and that is terribly wrong as often as not. The hubris and entitlement that I've seen engendered in people who take this creed too seriously is really something to behold. It's part of what directly leads to the 'techbro' stereotype.
No, Kyle, just because you're right a lot about all things relating to Rust does NOT mean you know a fucking thing about economics, healthcare, or whatever the hell else it is you espouse your strongly held opinion on.
I suggest people badly underestimate how very rapidly expertise falls of as one moves away from a specific tightly-scoped feedback-intensive area of skill. Ask a wizzy quantum chemist a protein chemistry question, and don't be surprised to get the answer of a grad or undergrad student. There's a news genre of "Harvard MBA's don't understand seasons!"-like stories - if someone last saw something years ago in middle school, don't be surprised now by a middle schooler's understanding. A person can both be a highly-regarded <model organism> researcher, and have gone rather nutter on <diet thing> that very isn't their research area.
Physicists are stereotypically famous for misjudging expertise decay. https://xkcd.com/793/ Some things, like deep intellectual humility, do seem to consistently transfer well between fields. Being "right, a lot", not so consistently.
That’s never been my observation. Tech people are some of the most arrogant people I’ve encountered, often asserting things outside of their domain. The delusion that being right in one area makes them right in other areas is real.
It’s the whole circle jerk about STEM being the ultimate degree fields in university, while humanities and liberal arts are looked down upon and sneered at.
The humanities is a lot of nonsense. And any STEM student can read a humanity study and understand it and write a valid critique. The opposite is definitely not the case.
STEM students are just better at modelling than non-STEM (on a whole).
As for programmers. I’ve met several who only work in a specific industry for a few years. They have no problems moving to a new industry and within 6 months they understand the new domain and can model that accurately as well.
I have not once met a marketing or hr guy who was able to model anything, let alone a different domain.
Funnely enough I was nodding to parent post until I read your answer and was abit emberrased. I got a bad case of STEM hubris too. The STM can go home though.
How you see it depends on how highly you think of non-STEM work, I guess - but I will say anecdotally that the folks who were good at math/science when I was in school also seemed to be solidly above average at English.
I wish those sorts of people would realize that they are showing their whole ass when they act like that. Only the deeply insecure mask their ignorance with arrogance. We can hear your thoughts and feel your motivations.
It is actually very easy to correctly assert certain statements outside of your domain as long as the domain you are butting in on is obviously fraudulent, pseudoscientific, full of charlatans, practitioners don't have any skin in the game, is almost entirely funded by political money (and wouldn't be funded otherwise), or is heavily based on some sort of mysticism, and I'm sure this isn't an exhaustive list. Turns out that is a lot of domains of human activity.
This reminds me of a joke about "windows users waiting for the service pack while macos is always stable" that a friend always rubbed in my face whenever I had some issue with windows a decade ago.
And that I just sent a message yesterday to my team to wait before installing sequoia... But now I'll use your target of .4.
That's the trick for stability on MacOS, wait a few versions after a major. Done this for a few years now and I have had no problems. When they change OS APIs, it happens on a major point zero release. Another good reason to wait is many apps aren't ready in time for the changes. I'll install a point 2 or a point 3 if it looks like a good release, but it looks like this isn't one of them. My pro tip for finding out whether its a good upgrade or not is the macrumors article comments, I'll scan through and see what people are saying about the update.
He’s absolutely correct about the ridiculous complexity of cloud tooling. The number of services, features, knobs, etc., available in AWS is borderline comical. I’m skeptical that half of the products they have really fill a gap and solve problems people had. Who’s asking for all of these new services that are constantly being rolled out? There’s so much cruft in their product offerings. Promotion at AWS is kind of like how it is at Google now, where a product is launched because someone needs to get their L8, not because customers are asking for it.
To be fair, you don't have to use those features. Stick to the commodities like EC2, S3, and maybe managed databases. You might however notice that you're being ripped off and a crater is forming in your bank account.
Those specialized services are often about trading-off vendor-lock-in in exchange for cost-savings. Sometimes these savings are real but more often they're just perceived due to the disparate billing models (some services bill per the hour, some per-request, some per-GB of traffic, etc) so it makes it hard to estimate or understand what exactly you're paying for and which areas can be optimized.
At the end of the day there is no such thing as a free lunch. AWS' margins must come from somewhere, and they would not be offering a product at a loss.
>Stick to the commodities like EC2, S3, and maybe managed databases.
The problem is they are increasingly not a commodity. Not only EC2 or S3 but also bandwidth / transfer. The price disparity between EC2 and 2nd tier Cloud Provider like DigitalOcean or Linode continues to grow every year. And the gap between DO and 3rd tier continue to grow also.
It’s all about lock in. AWS has a bunch of features that you could implement yourself in an afternoon with a few EC2s, but it’s much easier to click the checkbox. Repeat this across an entire org for a few years and you are deeply coupled to AWS. They are anti features in that sense.
You can’t be that naive, can you? It’s obviously not the Tweet they’re worried about. They think the Tweet is indication that he supports Hamas enough to aid or promote them secretly. “If this guy is this outspoken publicly for his support of Hamas, what must he be doing to support them behind closed doors? Does he donate to them? Organize for them?”
Whether or not that’s enough to search him is another debate, but that’s what their thought process was when they decided to detain him.
> They think the Tweet is indication that he supports Hamas enough to aid or promote them secretly. “If this guy is this outspoken publicly for his support of Hamas, what must he be doing to support them behind closed doors? Does he donate to them? Organize for them?”
If they think that then why just him and not the thousands of other people tweeting similar things?
The thought process is evidently "oh, it's that bloody git again, have we got anything we can pin him for this time?"; if you don't see that it's you who's being naive. (I'm agnostic about whether it's specifically about Scottish independence, the Assange case, or something else; one way or another he's a thorn in the side of the powerful, and that's why the book is being thrown at him)
Probably if Mary-Sue from Idaho, a shop clerk tweets this it’s not exactly the same if a former diplomat with international connections and public influence does it?
You're grossly overselling his influence. He doesn't have the ear of the powerful or the mob. Even if he were to explicitly call his followers to take up arms - which is a long way past the quoted statement - I very much doubt any of them would.
No, I think that the tweet is an excuse that allows them to hassle him more, because he's a prominent supporter of Scottish Independence. I don't think this has anything to do with Hamas itself.
Nothing in that article reminded me in the slightest of Arthur Upfield working as a fence boundary rider on the rabbit-proof fence in Western Australia while writing his then unpublished book The Sands of Windee.
He had decided to write another detective novel, but with a plot difference; there being no body for the detective to find. Unfortunately, he could not think of a way to dispose of a body.
Cracking that nut did lead to unforeseen consequences:
a series of three murders, committed by an itinerant stockman known as "Snowy" Rowles .. used the murder method that had been suggested by author Arthur Upfield ..
Still, at least I got to read about Bruce Chatwin getting stoned in India while eating a curry and reading Bhagavad Gita.
…right. Don’t blame the manufacturer for making shitty drives, blame tech review sites for testing those drives with the tools available and reporting the results of those tests. This is some 4D level victim blaming shit. I’m almost impressed at the absurdity of this argument.
