rubylark

I think it's a difference in expectation. For some reason, people are surprised that birds have the same intelligence level as a human toddler. However no one wants an AI assistant that's as dumb as a toddler.

As a counterpoint, Jesse Ventura was famous before he got into politics. It's much harder to win when no one knows who you are.

I'm a third generation "woman in tech" (grandma did punch cards, mom did COBOL) and I haven't had any problems that I keep being told I'm supposed to have. I suspect discrimination is location specific. The most I get is the annoying "you guys..." pause to think "...and gal".

(PSA: "you guys" is gender neutral)

The only reasonable explanation I can think of is that Chatterjee's motives and subsequent termination (which is not elaborated on) was related to gender discrimination. Otherwise I can't see what relevance anyone's genders has on the issue at hand.

I'll add an anecdote to contradict that argument:

I work in embedded, and the place I work restructured to have a dedicated software group. They hired young software engineers and focused on getting people who are good programmers without really caring what they were good at. Most people ended up being web developers and liked webstack.

We were tasked with making a handheld air quality measurement device with a touch screen that could pair with a computer app that we would also write. Most people on the team knew webstack so we decided on a HTML/CSS/JavaScript +SQLite that would run in Electron Chromium on Linux on the physical device.

So what went wrong? Well, electron is bloated for embedded devices and the mid-tier processor we were using chugged so much that it would get hot. Hot enough to affect the temperature sensors at the top of the board and throw off the gas density measurements. Our MVP was nearly done when we discovered this problem.

We had two choices: throw out the hardware or throw out the software. We ended up throwing out the software and starting over (in Winforms + C# if anyone's curious). I and two others quit as a result. It is _really_ depressing redoing something you've already done in a different language.

If we picked the lighter weight framework from the start instead of picking the language most people knew, we wouldn't have lost a year of work.

Would that not be the person running the AI? The one giving prompts and verifying that prompts are fulfilled adequately?

In the US, it depends on the waste services provider, city, and county. I've had garbage companies that offer compost and yard waste services and some not. Sometimes it's provided through the city or county for free or for a fee, though not everywhere

Do you have examples of wordy US signs that are only symbolic in the EU system? All of the ones I see on the article are either city names or pedestrian signs with complex instructions that I don't think could be conveyed effectively in only symbolic form.

The ones I can think of that are words only that might have a better symbolic notation are Dead End, No Outlet, and No Passing Zone.

Why not? If the airline has a policy that allows them to fly, why wouldn't they? It's not the people with allergies asking the flight not to serve other people peanuts, it's the airline itself deciding to do that.

Besides if someone has a contact allergy to nuts, I can't think of a place more likely for it to happen than a plane. One patch of turbulence, and your seat neighbor's peanuts go all over you.

I find this kind of assumption that "coders can't understand feelings" as a harmful stereotype and baseless assumption just because many of the comments here disagree with your take. Emotional intelligence* has nothing to do with it; sympathy does. You can recognize the emotions of others without feeling sympathy for them. You think the author is sympathetic, others here (myself included)...don't.

*Emotional intelligence is the recognition of your emotions, the emotions of others, how your actions influence the emotions of others, and how to regulate your own emotions. Ironically, by this definition, the author is the one lacking emotional intelligence. They didn't understand why they were angry, why others were frustrated or how to mitigate it. They still don't understand that just saying that you are at peace doesn't mean that you are. To me, the author is still brimming with hurt, anger, jealousy, greed, and pride, and because of these last three, I don't have much sympathy.

Not that uncommon in my experience. Depends on the kind of microcontrollers/embedded computers. Weaker ones are closer to the bare metal and need some EE during development. More complex ones with a GUI or that run Linux are mostly application level work. And for mid-level microcontrollers (the kind I work on), once the drivers are there, it's all application work.

The problem for switching from pure software to embedded is that companies like you to have EE experience, even if the job doesn't require it at the moment, so you can use it if you need it. Of all my embedded coworkers, only one was a pure CompSci major. The rest were CompE or EE.

Personally I consider myself more SWE than EE, and half of my job titles have been "Software Engineer" instead of "Firmware Engineer" or "Embedded Engineer".