Really?

nothing makes sense anyway

as soon as something becomes the metric it becomes the goal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Ask @b2plane

Also, Google is laying off again I heard (or still is).

@Demolishun I'm not working for google but I'm working for a multi trillion dollar bank and last tuesday they gave me end-of-year feedback and said theyre happy w me and have no plans to replace me

@b2plane good job bro!

Some fields like medicine are an exception and I think they should stay that way.

In other words, "If doctors were as poor at medicine as I am at programming, I'd be afraid going to the doctor".

@kamen I think some doctors are in fact bad at doctoring.

@Demolishun No denying in that. I'm talking however about the barrier of entry. There's also the responsibility side of things - if you're a doctor and you make a mistake, you might kill someone and face jail time; if you're a software developer and make a mistake, you most often cost your employer some amount of money and that's it.

@kamen we build stuff that can kill people at my company. Maybe not directly by software, but more indirectly. Bad information can lead to bad decisions.

@kamen medicine is not an exception. it's worse, actually. they don't have a computer to constantly validate their math, and the cost of hurting a patient is so high everybody is incentivized to hide crime because owning up to mistakes would be so monetarily and reputationally damaging, therefore systematic failures propagate and do not get learned from. the degrees are so expensive that the 250k-750k in debt doctors are bought off by big pharma or they literally cannot ever pay back their unforgivable student loans because no other profession can get you out of that, meaning the whole field is corrupt badly, and that's on top of how the teachers when you go in don't even understand the material they themselves are teaching you. they don't even get taught nutrition. they also get taught that it's always the patient's fault for being "too lazy to exercise", and culture at large denies environmental causes like pesticides or whatever the fuck "apeel" is

actually I believe even with the incentive to hide medical malpractice it comes out as the 1st or 2nd leading cause of death

ok if I Google it now there's articles trying to say "nooo it isn't!" and "that's an old number, it's been trending down!" yeah just like CPI is 5% and the Biden administration doesn't keep revising the unemployment numbers and the FBI didn't keep revising the crime numbers

anyway they're literal snake oil salesman

nothing works, you're on your own, now you know and won't die as easily, and have fun

also insurance is a fucking racket and it's immoral to make it or taxes legally mandated

idk how it is in different countries, but right now I'm seeing a really huge investment in specialists, and they want people with a diploma

If you don’t have professional experience, companies won’t hire you, making the degree worthless because from the day you have experience, your degrees are ignored. It’s up to you to see how you can learn the best.

If the thinking that a degree will automatically and undoubtedly push you into a job, that is a mistake.
A major or minor uni degree is, like, step 4 out of 8 in the ci/cd of a good job. You can't skip it, but this stage succeeding doesn't implies that the further stages will succeed.
However, failing to obtan an uni degree does means that further stages are toast.

You don't need a degree only if you follow YouTube logic