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  • Turns out just being able to show up at the office interview wearing khaki pants and making eye contact with your future boss counts for more than optimizing graph trees via psychic technomancy.

    Christ, that poor Intel engineer is probably out on the unemployment line right now

    As someone with a degree in CompSci I hate how true this is. I knew so many brilliant programmers during my course that I had constant imposter syndrome… and 5 years out some of the ones I once regarded as the most talented still live with their parents because they can’t pass the turing test equivalent of an interview lol

    One person I knew in particular was so physically incapable of getting through a single conversation without whipping out some pretentious insult that he’d make both Gregory House and Sheldon Cooper look like sycophants by contrast, hahaha




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    2 months ago

    Look.

    I get your point, but I still haven’t gotten over the trauma from the time I installed openSUSE on my desktop as a teenager because Windows Vista had gotten too slow for me and I’d seen some people talking about Linux online.

    Somehow, the bug I ended up encountering on this distro was the worst thing imaginable: the inability to download anything, ever again. So even when I found solutions for it on obscure forums… I was unable to download any tools to actually use to rectify this problem.

    My computer was a brick for 3 years.

    This was a long time ago, and I’ve graduated with a degree in CompSci since then. However, I’ll never forget the one Linux/Unix course I took, where the final was to blindly install a Linux OS onto the machine.

    I had issues with 5/6 of them.

    I remember briefly asking the professor for guidance, worried I was gonna fail… and he confessed to me that he’d never actually done it before, so he didn’t really understand why they weren’t working.

    The professor of the university level course.

    So yeah, my days of tinkering with Linux are over. I’m happy for you, and Imma let you finish, but Linux is the most nightmarish OS for a layman user of all time lol