CynAq

Since I don't plan to have kids, and not planning to get a Steam Deck either, I think I did.

Really? What kind of lake are they now? Oh, meteor lake.

Remind me when they are at "toxic waste lake" or "out of lakes, sorry"

As long as Apple forces webKit for browsing, any third party browser will more or less be a safari wrapper. Until that changes, I will keep using safari in iOS.

This is so frustrating.

I'm a staunch ally even though I'm not lgbtq+ myself and regularly get into arguments with people in my social circles regarding this issue.

The most annoying take people have is "I support everyone's right to live their life as they wish so I won't take a stance either way".

Like... Are you even hearing what you are saying?!

Could be drunk and stumbling

This is a social psychology question and the answer doesn't have as much to do with the particulars of what a programmer does as the social environment "programming" lives in.

The easiest concept regarding this phenomenon is self selection bias. Certain groups of people are drawn to, and others are excluded from certain professions. These groups are usually defined by demographics and personality traits. This results in a self-preserving system with its own gatekeeping, leading to a self-preserving subculture.

Obviously this isn't unique to programming. Every human group regardless of how that group is defined have in-group and out-group biases which perpetuates us and them identities in our minds. Everyone has these to varying degrees.

If we want to talk about why programming seems to select for the trait of arrogance, we have to speculate.

I think it could be related to the esoteric nature of professions like electronics engineering and programming. Things these professions work with do not have moving parts. Their internal workings can't be guessed by their physical appearance, nor from their immediate function. This might be creating a feeling of magic, as in any advanced enough technology blah blah... You know what I mean.

Perhaps programmers start to believe in the magic themselves, or to take it seriously when they are called "tech wizards" etc.

In return, non-programmers are probably happy to benefit from the "magic" without going into the nitty gritty of all the frustrating grunt work required to make things work, and they exclude themselves from the profession.

I don't know about smaller lemmy communities but the lemmy world logo looks like Allah written backwards in arabic and throws me off every time I see it, lol

I don't know about rebooted but I think Overwatch 2 should be debooted and revert back to 1.

Not only nobody "earns" that much money, nobody should have the right to command the amount of influence that kind of money provides.

We are literally talking about FIVE people fucking with the lives of the entire planet.

Even if you add the active politicians of every country on earth, it would be a minuscule number of people controlling the lives of eight billion of us, and the most frustrating part of it is that vast majority of that eight billion thinks this is normal, or even should be encouraged.

What do you call someone who doesn't call themselves a programmer in any capacity but has enough programming skills to make things work when he needs things working for non-programming-focused things like automation for material science experiments?

I am that.

This is exactly how I feel too.

It gives me confidence that the more we build a community in this "ecosystem", as much as I hate that word in this context, the more people will be drawn to it.

"Spirituality is innate" is such a copout for me. In my opinion, it just means people have an imagination and emotions, but I don't want to admit magic isn't real so I'll call it spirituality.