The two hardest problems in Computer Science are
1. Human communication
2. Getting people in tech to believe that human communication is important
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@hazelweakly The third hardest is I presume then to get people in tech to understand that 90% of all ‘technical’ problems are instead socio-political ones and that neither political nor social problems have technical solutions?
@dequbed @hazelweakly reminds me of someone crowing about how blockchain would magically solve issues of warehouses losing packages. Literally zero awareness of stuff like theft, workers not filling paperwork properly, stuff getting missed on the back of a shelf, boxes falling off of conveyors etc. Warehousing databases don't lose inventory, people do.
@dequbed @hazelweakly a lot of people in tech would do well to realize that they’re essentially plumbers and bricklayers, working for a few rich landlords.
@slothrop @hazelweakly and both parts of that. Tech people are *just* plumbers and bricklayers. They help build infrastructure but they're no better than a bricklayer building a bridge.
@dequbed @slothrop @hazelweakly ...which leads to looking back at the bridges you've built, and hoping they've been used more by good people to do good things, than by any other kind. But also being afraid to look.
@hazelweakly In the veterinary drama "All Creatures Great and Small," the vets desperately need one of the new postwar antibiotics, and eventually get them from a 200 year-old firm of chemists. They express surprise that a veteran rep working for a traditional firm is able to keep up with rapidly changing times.
The rep smiles. "I find," he says, "that the things that matter most are the things that change the least."
"And what are those," they ask him.
"People."
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