Is the big tech era ending?

Re:Is the big tech era ending? by spc476 on Saturday December 04, 2021 @05:53PM (#29445056)

I've been programming professionally for 30 years now, and I have learned sysadmin skills---the skills required changed at least three times and the skills I learned in the 90s/early 2000s are largely obsolete, the skills from the early 2000s/2010s are on the way out.

You can't win, you can't break even, and you can't get out of the game.

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Re:Is the big tech era ending? by throwaway47292 on Saturday December 04, 2021 @06:11PM (#29445174)

i dont think thats true

ip, tcp and udp are the same, rip ospf and bgp are pretty much the same linux's skbuffs or bsd's mbufs are the same as before, the linux dma api changed a bit, but the ideas are the same.

there are some changes on the disk layers with geom and such, but nothing super fundamental

there are a bunch of layers of indirection now with VMs and cgroups, but deep down things are the same.

> You can't win, you can't break even, and you can't get out of the game.

there is nothing to win :) its just computers, dont take it so seriously

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