Anon is an imposter
Submitted 2 months ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to greentext@sh.itjust.works
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Kenny2999@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Event_Horizon@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Hiw did you get that? Put it back ontop of big ben!
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
The black box people emtrust their secrets? (TPM, encrypting disks, cloud, AI)
Zephyr@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
How the internet works would be more so an IT thing than a backend developer thing at least on a high level. Setting up a database doesn’t mean one knows networking well in the same way they probably don’t know cpu logic gate design well.
Gregers@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You don’t need to know all the details, but I think you should understand the basic network concepts way before starting your first job as a developer
Zephyr@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
At least TCP/IP, DNS, and similar things, yeah. Maybe not so much the intricate details of the wifi6 or Bluetooth protocols.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 2 months ago
Arguably an engineering (hardware) or systems programming issue, too. How many IT people (even the highly competent ones) could design a router, wifi chip etc.?
Zephyr@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
True and how many of those guys are well versed in fiber optics at IXPs. Maybe with like 20 dudes you could get an extremely in-depth snapshot of how the internet works from transistors to transformers and everything in-between.
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 2 months ago
Some developers that know both networking and developing will make those chips, the avarage developer will know about TCP/IP and DNS, at max
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
greyscale@lemmy.grey.ooo 2 months ago
I’m a principle engineer, I’m broke as shit and I can see everyone else being incompetent (and outsourcing their brains to Claude) all day.
Gimmie one of these 130k jobs where I don’t need to know anything, I’m sick of BS infra and k8s and shitass applications made as zillions of fucked microservices written by people who already bounced.
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Knowledge without networking: low pay
Networkung without knowledge: hi pay
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’ve got one of those.
The most important skill is being able to talk to people and communicate…
dan69@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’ve heard this before, not everything has to become a microservice rather it’s okay for some aspects to be a monolith.
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
To anyone feeling like this, nobody understands fully how computers work. You find your niche and you do your bit.
I don’t think there’s anyone alive who understands it all.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 months ago
nobody understands fully how computers work
I mean, tap the breaks a little bit, here. “Fully” is doing a lot of lifting.
I will concede most people don’t understand the concept of transistors, much less the electrical engineering that turns a series of transistors into a CPU. And I’ll spot you that - for any given computer - it would take multiple extended papers to explain every piece of functionality.
But - broadly speaking - if you a computer engineer, you understand how a computer is engineered. If you’re working in IT, you have enough of a functional knowledge that you can tell what each general component does. And if you’re a full stack developer (rather than someone who just does business logic on the backend), you should have a generalized understanding of client versus server versus database and how these pieces fit together. You should also probably have some grasp of the network stack, if for no other reason than you occasionally need to troubleshoot it.
vala@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I think there are very few if any people who understand computers from the transistor all the way to front-end JavaScript frameworks. At least not deeply and not without major gaps.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I mean the basic principles are very simple.
It’s the scaling of it all that you can’t really understanding.
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
The very basic principles of 1 and 0 and using them to make logic gates is easy enough to understand. Its somewhere between doing that and getting hundreds of millions of them in a space smaller than your fingernail to all work at exactly the right way to send a specific series of them to space and back in a way that cant be interpreted by anyone but the intended recipient and then translate that information to a picture of someones dick that the confusion starts up.
tetris11@feddit.uk 2 months ago
I think that people just can’t make the software --> hardware jump. Like they understand what machine code is, and what CPU registers are, but can’t understand how a CPU with baked in hardware instructions (i.e. a seemingly fully deterministic piece of hardware) can drive transistors to high or low voltages in a seemingly random way.
The key is to see all software as hardware, and to envision the CPU as many many light bulb switches, with some wired into each other, creating flip/flopping latches.
Once you get the idea of a flipflop, you can maybe then start
CubitOom@infosec.pub 2 months ago
The Internet is a series of tubes
ArgentRaven@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s not something you just dump stuff on. It’s not a big truck!
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 2 months ago
tell that to the truckload of tape backups I just had e-wasted.
bless@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
The Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It’s not a big truck. It’s a series of tubes. And if you don’t understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it’s going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 2 months ago
Came looking for this. Was not disappointed.
JLock17@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The worst part is when you do finally understand the protocols and standards, you still have to follow different procedures depending on where you work.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You can have a totally secure network and will never fail.
But nobody will ever be able to do anything useful on it.
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Imagine a series of tubes. Imagine they are connected in a manner such that it spells “study computer networking: a top-down approach.”
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Imagine a series of tubes.
I just the other day got, an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o’clock in the morning on Friday and I just got it yesterday. Why? Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the internet commercially. […] They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the Internet. And again, the Internet is not something you just dump something on. It’s not a big truck. It’s a series of tubes. And if you don’t understand those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it’s going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.
wrinkledoo@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I see we learned nothing from the “just learn code” blowback and are trying to make the industry even more barren.
TootSweet@lemmy.world 2 months ago
$130k after 2 years? 2 years after I started I was making like… $60k? That’s not even counting the 4.5 years I spent starting a startup and making nearly nothing.
That said, I don’t live in Silicon Valley or anything. Pretty low cost-of-living here. Probably a big part of the discrepancy.
pigup@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Inflation is thing that make number bigger but no more money. Less, even.
pelya@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You just launch Wireshark and watch packets going back and forth, and you understand it in like 10 minutes.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You don’t what to know how the internet works.
It’s boring and it’s complex and it’s fragile and basically dependent on corporations and nations being nice to each other.
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 2 months ago
Once you understand how internet works, you will understand that it’s also pure bullshit
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 2 months ago
we’re all just faking it, hoping nobody looks under the hood
including your therapist.
birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
ngl this got me wondering what kinda jobs are fairly easy to enter (not too difficult or not too few availability), have good job prospects (salary, labour terms and conditions)… like how do i even learn how to do front/backend, etc., if i am bad at math?
B0rax@feddit.org 2 months ago
You don’t need math at all.
How to learn it? Think of a project you would like to tackle, and just start on your pc
birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
fuck off, i’m not going to use aislop
cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 2 months ago
The amount of math needed depends massively on your desired field. If you want to go into gamedevelopment you will probably work a lot with vectors. If you go into embedded systems the basic knowledge of hexadecimal and the binary system are crucial and you will probably also need the basics of electric engineering.
I would guess, that webdevelopment or systems integration usually don’t involve that much math.
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I am not a professional but coding is more holding logic paths in your mind and translating large concepts into bite-sized steps.
In my (extremely amateur) solo dev project this weekend - a card game, I needed a trap that’s invisible to opponents but visible to the player.
So we create an (invisible) control node with an (optionally visible) animated node with a text label that inherits the visibility of the immediately parent.
Then the top level node needs a “when I give you a place to be, animate appearing then animate moving to that place function” and it needs to respond to the card_played signal, and it needs to check the logic to see if that’s the time to trigger, and if so which functions it needs to activate (the board, the “umpire” node, the opponent hand) in which order, then call the dialogue system to display dialogue, then query the dialogue database for which message to show, which in itself has a controller that forces the order of animations and turns on/off clicks to various functions while this function resolves…
The only math involved is “how fast should the node move” and “if this trap blocks face cards, then block anything with a card value over 10” (jack queen king)
Crashumbc@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I know this is a joke, but most people don’t realize the diversity of the internet specializations where if you’re not in that specialization, you can’t do it
baines@lemmy.cafe 2 months ago
that’s the rub, it doesn’t
jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
This was from 2023. Where is anon now?
lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
Laid off and back into NEETdom
ramble81@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
I can’t tell you the number of devs I’ve met that know jack shit about infrastructure and networking. Even simple questions like understanding their subnet or how a load balancer works.
echodot@feddit.uk 2 months ago
That’s because they’re back end devs. There is one way to do things, you learn the one way to do the thing, you do it that way, you’re done.
The fun is in front end, it’s 15 different ways of doing things, but you don’t like any of them, to develop a 16th way, eventually you get better but the 16th way so come up with a 17th way. Eventually you get sick of all of this and go back to SSGs as God intended.
anomnom@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
There’s a perfect way to do anything in frontend but only on the dev’s one computer. Everyone else will get garbage.
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You are not a real dev unless you can build your own CPU atom by atom
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 2 months ago
where is the lemmy community for those who self-host chip fabrication?
python@lemmy.world 2 months ago
…well I don’t have to know that because AWS is like, serverless, dude.
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
It’s in the cloud
deft@lemmy.wtf 2 months ago
Not just your industry. Every industry is like this.
Baggie@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Look I’m mostly in infrastructure and I don’t know much beyond core principles behind software development, I can’t really cast stones. But yeah they can be surprisingly ignorant sometimes.
blarghly@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The subwhat?
fervent_apathy@anarchist.nexus 2 months ago
It’s the water based version of skynet.
starik@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Those are the ones who can maintain eye contact, aren’t they?
porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Sure. I consider myself a fairly good dev. Not an amazing genius or anything but pretty competent in my area. Wouldn’t have a clue how a load balancer works beyond what’s in the name, I guess it balances loads. I can assume it does this by distributing requests to different servers because that just makes sense, but I don’t even really know that. Networking might as well be black magic as far as I’m concerned. I’m grateful we have a decent infra team who knows about all that. So I’m not surprised.
idunnololz@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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thebestaquaman@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That’s because an “IT engineer” is like an “engineer in chemistry”. You have so many sub-disciplines that a given engineer can’t be expected to know everything. Nobody is surprised if an organic chemist doesn’t know much about heat exchanger optimisation, or a chemical process engineer is confused by organic synthesis.
In the same way, I’ve met devops guys that know surprisingly (to me) little about the intricacies of hand writing multi-threaded high performance calculation code. In the other hand, they’re wizards at stuff like load balancing and optimising how we use sub-processes for I/O, CPU-bound or memory bound tasks. You would think the two are very similar, but even then it quickly becomes clear that people really become specialists in their field.
Hoimo@ani.social 2 months ago
Yeah, but why is CIDR notation like that? You put a bigger number at the end and your subnet becomes smaller? Why would you want that?
ramble81@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
When you translate it out it bits it’s the number of bits that are active in the net mask
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 is a /0
0000 0000 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 is a /24
0000 0011 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 is a /26
And since it’s used for marching, it follows how many there are.