The "let them eat code" kind of comment is ipso facto not a serious position. I have three degrees in aeronautical science and have built my own programs in BASIC, FORTRAN, and Excel to do my work, but that is a far cry from major mainframe coding in languages I whose names I can't even pronounce. Not everyone can or will ever be a code maven, and it has nothing to do with a comparison to mining coal---which I also cannot do, 3 degrees notwithstanding. Never forget that it was code mavens responsible for killing 364 passengers and crew in two 737 MAX crashes. And it is code mavens who are responsible for the automatic-driving fatalities that are cropping up. Code mavens don't produce food. Code mavens do not populate the entire production chain from forests to houses, and to paper products. Or the production chain from raw materials to automobiles, airplanes, and electronics. They do busy themselves with things like A.I., which so far is an encyclopedia set masquerading as a fortune-teller.
It is an insult, to be sure, but we have to stand back and realize that it is the insult of an ignorant and arrogant asshole, who doesn't even understand coding.
You didn't. I was referring to those idiot politicians who took the attitude that for all the coal-miners put out of work, they should learn to code. And I paraphrased it with Marie Antoinette's remark about the starving Frenchment, "They have no bread? Then let them eat cake."
This does go back to the referenced X post. Do you have any objection to what I said?
The "let them eat code" kind of comment is ipso facto not a serious position. I have three degrees in aeronautical science and have built my own programs in BASIC, FORTRAN, and Excel to do my work, but that is a far cry from major mainframe coding in languages I whose names I can't even pronounce. Not everyone can or will ever be a code maven, and it has nothing to do with a comparison to mining coal---which I also cannot do, 3 degrees notwithstanding. Never forget that it was code mavens responsible for killing 364 passengers and crew in two 737 MAX crashes. And it is code mavens who are responsible for the automatic-driving fatalities that are cropping up. Code mavens don't produce food. Code mavens do not populate the entire production chain from forests to houses, and to paper products. Or the production chain from raw materials to automobiles, airplanes, and electronics. They do busy themselves with things like A.I., which so far is an encyclopedia set masquerading as a fortune-teller.
It is an insult, to be sure, but we have to stand back and realize that it is the insult of an ignorant and arrogant asshole, who doesn't even understand coding.
tell me where did i write, "let them eat code"? what exactly are you going on about?
You didn't. I was referring to those idiot politicians who took the attitude that for all the coal-miners put out of work, they should learn to code. And I paraphrased it with Marie Antoinette's remark about the starving Frenchment, "They have no bread? Then let them eat cake."
This does go back to the referenced X post. Do you have any objection to what I said?
the quotation marks you put around, let them eat code, in my inbox, had me thinking that you were quoting what i said.
Look, you re-posted an X post by Joe Lange. That was what I was responding to. I have no idea what you said.