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Re:America is building chip factories. Now to find the workers by FirmwareBurner on Friday August 25, 2023 @04:39AM (#37259473)
>SWEs could halt the fiat economy tomorrow through collective action

From my experience SWEs are the workers' category least likely to get involved in any kind of collective action. They're too self centered and individualistic for that.

Re:America is building chip factories. Now to find the workers by probelm on Friday August 25, 2023 @04:51AM (#37259531)
I agree. As an EE by education, I find CS grads and SWEs to be clowns.

“What’s that? You made purpose built counting machines count? You’re welcome.”

The foot fungus eater and the latest DSL dealer can all pound sand.

I laugh at mathematically correct languages like Haskell. If mathematical correctness is a goal, may as well build it into the chip and leave a small programming environment to correct errors and give up on programming all together.

Re:America is building chip factories. Now to find the workers by sofixa on Friday August 25, 2023 @05:57AM (#37259900)
> From my experience, modern SWEs are the workers' category least likely to get involved in any kind of collective action. They're too self centered and individualistic for that.

Not to mention way too well paid, comfortable and with lots to lose. Why risk a very comfortable lifestyle for some noble goal that barely concerns you unless you have tons of empathy?