Re:NASA spacecraft to probe possibility of life in Europa's ...
by chefandy on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @09:18AM
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Well, what good is a naive misgiving if you don't even use it to haughtily dismiss genuine expertise? I can't tell you how many times I've had developers essentially manaplain my non-dev fields of expertise to me knowing that I was a credentialed professional and they were making stab-in-the-dark assumptions. Phrases like, "theoretically, it should be very simple," should usually be replaced by, "It would be ridiculous to assume everything I don't know about this is inconsequential, but here are some baselessly confident words about it:".
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Re:NASA spacecraft to probe possibility of life in Europa's ...
by potato3732842 on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @09:28AM
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What good is a professional credential if you don't use it as an appeal to authority to shut down any criticism of your opinions? /s
On a more serious note, it's a travesty that lawyers get all the hate and PEs get none.
Re:NASA spacecraft to probe possibility of life in Europa's ...
by eldaisfish on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @12:59PM
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add to this the constant claims in the field of renewable energy and the energy transition. I've heard "energy storage is a solved problem" so many times that i cannot help but laugh.
Code & techbros are not the solution to everything.
Re:NASA spacecraft to probe possibility of life in Europa's ...
by chefandy on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @02:00PM
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Then, some will dust off that Larry Wall quote about hubris as if it's exculpatory... Well, I read that book too, and he was definitely talking about problem-solving approaches in software development, and not general-purpose personality traits for software developers.