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Nina Kalinina
Nina Kalinina
@nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt  ·  activity timestamp 21 hours ago

We have reached a new era of civil engineering; now we can build bridges by simply dumping truckloads of shit into the river until the shit mountains are tall enough that some people and maybe cars can cross the river. Truly, it is a revolutionary technology that democraticizes access to bridges; now everyone can dump a truckload of shit over small rivers here and there and cross the rivers instead of asking an engineer to build the bridge for them. This approach completely removes all the bottlenecks in engineering, too: no need to navigate difficult legal frameworks or ethical concerns. The biggest players on the market are staring to replace their bridges with shit mountains, you'd better be catching up and learning how to use this new groundbreaking technology. Some of you have ethical concerns, but this is beyond of the scope of my post. I also recognise that some might notice fish in the rivers dying, or simply slip on the shit; just you wait, I bet it'll be fixed in ~6 months

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Nina Kalinina
Nina Kalinina
@nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt replied  ·  activity timestamp 21 hours ago

Look, there are lots of skeptics out there, but the shit mountains are becoming really useful these days. With just a shit mountain or two you could reach places that previously required a ladder or a bridge or a vehicle. The vehicle part is still out of reach, but in the future we can make shit mountains placed in such a way that, when we pour some shit between them, would allow us to reach the destination almost as fast as cars and boats. And it runs on shit, and as you know, shit is virtually free, you can literally go to a number of websites and get the shit for free. You can even get open-sourced shit these days, and pour it locally. Open source shit mountains are not as good as the commercial ones yet, but we're getting there.

Anyway, the bottom line, shit mountains are here to stay. Learn how to live with them.

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Ben Ramsey
Ben Ramsey
@ramsey@phpc.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 18 hours ago

@nina_kali_nina We got here because software engineering has never required licenses or guardrails like other engineering professions.

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Matt Palmer
Matt Palmer
@womble@infosec.exchange replied  ·  activity timestamp 15 hours ago

@ramsey I don't think licensure would have saved us, given the number of lawyers who have been caught pulling their motions out of the shit mountain.

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Ben Ramsey
Ben Ramsey
@ramsey@phpc.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 15 hours ago

@womble I meant if our industry had a history of licensure and safety regulations like other engineering professions do.

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Matt Palmer
Matt Palmer
@womble@infosec.exchange replied  ·  activity timestamp 14 hours ago

@ramsey having done a Real Engineering degree, I have significant exposure to the "professional engineering" mindset, and have Complicated Thoughts about this. I don't think that licences and regulations drive the safety and efficacy of professional engineering as much as industry culture and societal norms. Again, lawyers are licensed and regulated to heck and back, yet they're neck deep in the shit mountain.

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Wolf480pl
Wolf480pl
@wolf480pl@mstdn.io replied  ·  activity timestamp 16 hours ago

re: me being bitter about genai

@ramsey
is software industry at the stage where chemical industry was in Alfred Nobel's era?
@nina_kali_nina

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Being Left Behind Enjoyer
Being Left Behind Enjoyer
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io replied  ·  activity timestamp 21 hours ago

@nina_kali_nina is that the origin of code smell

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