• El Barto@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Most (if not all) embedded systems engineers will tell you that they find enjoyment working in tightly constrained systems, first and foremost.

    And second, we’re talking about the freaking Voyager, man. What an honor and privilege must one feel working on such an incredible machine!

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      Anyone who signs up to work on the voyager then gets frustrated at working on old tech is too stupid to work on voyager. I would imagine working in voyager is something you have to actively seek out, not something that you get “stuck” doing.

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        oh come on, you’re gonna work on voyager, be pissed off for about a week at a time, after running into a really fucking annoying issue, and then once you solve it, repeat that a few times and when it’s shipped to production you’ve basically married the fucking thing by that point.

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        8 months ago

        Oh sure. It’s a “good kind” of frustration. But the way you worded sounded differently:

        Must be really frustrating for them, having to work with 49-year-old hardware though, with diminishing memory space for running programs.

        To me, that sounds like “ugh, why do I have to work with this 49-year-old piece of outdated garbage.” But I see what you’re saying now.

        Personally, I’d be more like “oh shit, oh shit… we’re running out of space! How do we fix this?! (God I love my job! 😃)”

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          To me, that sounds like “ugh, why do I have to work with this 49-year-old piece of outdated garbage.” But I see what you’re saying now.

          I said that statement with the glass half full, but you’re reading it with the glass half empty. We have different perspectives on the same words on the page.

          And as I mentioned, I personally believe we should all be using emojis all the time, but they tend to be shunned upon now these days and people are mocked for using them, so I tend not to.

          Finally it was such a trivial sentence, not worth adding emojis to, let alone the conversation we’re having about it now.

          You could just take someone at good faith, and not think they’re just being negative you know. 🙂

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            8 months ago

            All good, friend. Funny - I usually see a glass half-full in online interactions with people I personally know (friends/family/coworkers), and in face-to-face interactions as well.

            But unfortunately, social networks, including Lemmy to a lesser extent, seem to be bringing the worst of people as of lately. Pure doom and gloom, rude comments, etc. Now, that has always been the case, and I have thick skin (e.g. youtube comments before upvotes? Geezez christ!!) But now the whole thing is fueled with external disinformation campaign and now we have AI!

            Hm, who is shunning emojis on Lemmy? Could it be your instance, or the communities you’re visiting? When used effectively, emojis add useful context to the conversations. Of course, some 👏 people 👏 use 👏 them 👏 in 👏 a 👏 very 👏 annoying 👏 way! But fortunately, it’s not all the time.

            But anyway. You said that we’re arguing over such a simple matter - but for me, Lemmy is pure entertainment, so these discussions are, well, entertaining. Like when you’re mad at a character in a movie you’re enjoying. :)

            So, don’t take me too seriously, thank you for being graceful and I hope you’re having a nice day!

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              8 months ago

              Appreciate the response.

              Hm, who is shunning emojis on Lemmy? Could it be your instance, or the communities you’re visiting?

              No, it’s the impression I’ve gotten throughout the Internet.

              I actually don’t agree with the social prohibition on them. I think we should use them more often, in lieu of being able to see another person’s facial expression.

              But for some its seen as ineffective, for others immature, for others they just don’t like how often they’re used, etc., etc.

              This article from Psychology Today goes into some aspects of what I’m speaking about.

              You said that we’re arguing over such a simple matter

              I wasn’t considering what we were doing as arguing, but just discussing.

              But then again, it might be a glass half full perspective thing with me. 🙂

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