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> Doesn't it seem like systems are falling apart? They always were. > This is what I don't get, all around me, people don't know how things work, are literall

> Doesn't it seem like systems are falling apart? They always were. > This is what I don't get, all around me, people don't know how things work, are literally walking a knifes edge toward collapse, systems are failing all over, and yet companies wont staff up on tech people. You'd think that you would take digitalisation seriously in a company where 100% of your employees spend 100% of their working hours on a computer. You'd be wrong to think so though. It is what it is, but it's not exactly new. At least not in the world of enterprise where all employees have wanted for the past 40 years is an Excel that scaled. I once worked in an organisation where IT spent a lot of money (by company size) on a real world scenario roleplay of cyber security. They had this whole thing lined up in a fancy hotel to simulate a ransomware attack, and at the last minute the CEO canceled to go golfing and sent some personal assistant instead. A lot of decision makers just don't care about IT until it really, really, doesn't work. Since IT is always sort of wonky though, I think that people are just so used to it being mediocre that they won't notice if it drops a little further in quality.

golergka 2y ago
Depending on who he went golfing with, it could actually be the right call.
dathinab 2y ago
An interesting thing to observe is that while everyone uses tech ever day the "mass" is getting further away from having a good understanding of it instead of having a better understanding. And I man it makes sense, the technology is constantly getting more complex and at the same time you increasingly don't have to know how it works to use it effectively/professionally. At the same time knowing how it works doesn't mean you can use it effectively, e.g. knowing how to program a Windows GUI app doesn't mean you know the keyboard shortcuts of any specific GUI app or where in the settings you find some important option etc. To add on top of that there is a lot of artificial nonsense obfuscating proper technical understanding.
- Terr_ 2y ago
  > An interesting thing to observe is that while everyone uses tech ever day the "mass" is getting further away from having a good understanding of it instead of having a better understanding. IMO that's mostly because earlier technology required a greater degree of dedication and study and troubleshooting. Back In My Day when I wanted to play computer games I had to check my IRQs and configure Sound Blaster.
  - A4ET8a8uTh0 2y ago
    Oh that is a blast ( happy coincidence ) from the past. I remember the first time I saw autodetect. What a time saver that was. And don't get me started on getting the memory in batch set up just right for moonstone. Things are a lot easier now, but it getting easier made us forget how complicated it is underneath it all.

golergka 2y ago

Depending on who he went golfing with, it could actually be the right call.

dathinab 2y ago

An interesting thing to observe is that while everyone uses tech ever day the "mass" is getting further away from having a good understanding of it instead of having a better understanding. And I man it makes sense, the technology is constantly getting more complex and at the same time you increasingly don't have to know how it works to use it effectively/professionally. At the same time knowing how it works doesn't mean you can use it effectively, e.g. knowing how to program a Windows GUI app doesn't mean you know the keyboard shortcuts of any specific GUI app or where in the settings you find some important option etc. To add on top of that there is a lot of artificial nonsense obfuscating proper technical understanding.

Terr_ 2y ago
> An interesting thing to observe is that while everyone uses tech ever day the "mass" is getting further away from having a good understanding of it instead of having a better understanding. IMO that's mostly because earlier technology required a greater degree of dedication and study and troubleshooting. Back In My Day when I wanted to play computer games I had to check my IRQs and configure Sound Blaster.
- A4ET8a8uTh0 2y ago
  Oh that is a blast ( happy coincidence ) from the past. I remember the first time I saw autodetect. What a time saver that was. And don't get me started on getting the memory in batch set up just right for moonstone. Things are a lot easier now, but it getting easier made us forget how complicated it is underneath it all.