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> without much worry about the consequences

disagree, but the consequences I'm imagining are the consequences of loosing money due to not making those kinds of decisions.

the consequences for the decision makers are very different, the incentives which surround them and the consequences they'll face are not what you seem to think they are.

quality is expensive. if not even apple can afford it, what can we expect from the rest?

be thankful for what you've already had, remember it, cherish it?

this is a privilege.

the closest to this most of us ever get, is the 'sense' of ownership evoked by competent managers.

notice that it is a 'sense of' ownership. not real ownership;

anything that I create by myself, on my own, is not work; it's a hobby, it's fun, like really good games.

by this point I even think of work as all the other things I must do to afford rent, food, electric bills, chores, etc.

I agree with software not being engineering.

but I disagree that engineering is just execution. I disagree even harder that you can create something by throwing random stuff,, you may well find something cool like that but I think creation does require more of a clear intent than random throwing and finding as if by chance.

> unlike software engineers that typically have a 4 year degree, 2 year degree...

they do NOW. Back when a lot of us started getting involved with this, most 'engineers' had physics, engineering, mathematics, and other various backgrounds because software engineering degrees were too freaking new.

In the near-future (10 5? years? possibly sooner?) kids are gonna graduate with specialized PM degrees having gone to highschool thinking about being "product manager" when they grow up. When I was in highscool i wanted to be a Webmaster! now a webmaster is 15 people between desiginers, PMs, backend, frontend, QA, testers, blah blah blha

they are talking about the recording industry more than about music; so I suppose I agree?

the recording industry is the problem that music has. But this 'problem' is not limited to music.

for some people a job is just a job, and any job is potentially ok.

some other suckers like myself, we need something more out of our jobs; it sucks to be like this; it makes us easier to exploit.

but the Steam Deck is not buyable where I live. :(

is dna hardware? software?

it's both! it's neither! oh, and it's also the runtime!