A #lawsuit just hit Trump’s $1 million visa program, as #scientists and #engineers expose the damage it’s doing to #immigration
#engineers
In the last week or so, #Microsoft's CEO Satya Nadella announced that they were going to pull back from doing new feature work for #Windows for a bit, and focus on bug fixes and other quality-of-life improvements for users and administrators. Windows' already shaky reputation has taken a beating over the last year as it seems that every monthly rollup #patch, and many out-of-band #patches, introduce new problems at the same rate as they fix previous ones.
Is this giving you deja vu? It should. Remember a couple or three years ago, when the same guy announced that Microsoft was going to focus on security? They were in the middle of a long spell of brutal security holes found in all their products. Remember how they told their #engineers "If you have to choose between doing a feature and doing security, choose security"?
Remember how you never heard about that initiative again?
It's the same thing here. #PR garbage in service of a narrative that no, Windows' horrible security, usability, and #stability aren't actually that bad, so that MS can focus on their core competencies of buzzword promotion, stock market analyst manipulation, and monopoly abuse.
Perhaps someone in Microsoft management actually believes these refocusing efforts are genuine - but if you don't change the incentives, they won't actually take hold.
#PR #marketing #buzzword #MSWindows #SatyaNadella #security #WeveHeardOfIt #stability #crash #rollup #monopoly #MemoryHole
Data center operators are searching for trained and qualified electrical #engineers amid a boom in their field. Technical colleges and universities are adding new programs to meet demands. spectrum.ieee.org/ai-data-cent...
RE: https://discuss.systems/@kali/115923421713213904
for the #electrical & #electronic #engineers on here: this stuff will be very easily accessible to you. you could read through it right away.
@Ann_Effes @deliri @bananapi the same apples even to #engineers:
Their time is too expensive to "fuck around and find out" when a proper #datasheet is what they want.
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«Most #Chinese companies believe that if you can manufacture at scale, you can innovate, and they’re not wrong. A lot of the confidence in #China’s nascent humanoid #robot #industry and beyond is less about a single breakthrough and more about “We can iterate faster than the West.” (...) #OpenSource #culture feels deeply embedded; #engineers from Hangzhou tell me there are #AI hackathons every week in the city, where China’s new “little #SiliconValley” is located.»
https://mailchi.mp/technologyreview/ces-showed-me-why-chinese-tech-companies-feel-so-optimistic
#MIT
#Software #engineers and #developers, rejoice! Today is National #Rubber #Duck day.
So give your best pal a pet on the head and speak some words of encouragement to your greatest productivity asset. 🦆
👨🔧🛠️ Oh, bless the hearts of #engineers who take a #ceramics class and declare that "code is clay" after making a #hypercube instead of a mug. 🤦♂️ Because obviously, while the rest of us see a bowl, they see a quantum leap in programming metaphors. 😆✨
https://campedersen.com/code-is-clay #codeisclay #programmingmetaphors #humor #HackerNews #ngated
This 59 minute video is a fascinating, wonderful show. Lots of pizza and popcorn are needed to absorb it.
It explains the science of the technology that makes modern computer chips. But it's also an amazing story of the HUMANS involved, and a story of overcoming a huge number of almost insurmountable science/engineering problems.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiUHjLxm3V0
#Veritasium #Humans #Tenacity #ComputerScience #Scientists #Engineers #Technology
#LabPlot is a #free, #OpenSource tool designed for scientific #DataVisualization and #DataAnalysis, perfect for #researchers and #engineers. :boost_love:
One of its standout features is #Maxima (but also #Python, #R etc.) integration—you can create #notebooks that combine text, #LaTeX, Maxima commands, and plots, making it easy to produce scientific documents with live calculations and results.
Image source:
https://maxima-french-doc.fr/interfaces/
#FLOSS #FOSS #Science #Math #Physics #Chemistry #Data #STEM
The industry, has an incorrect perception of senior #engineers (in their literature, senior staff/principle/architect #software engineer). Often, they see seniority in terms of how good one manages people. Even they see tech leads as people who manage projects and people better than others. So effectively, management is a key skill for them. While in truth, unlike management, who someone puts you in charge, leadership is organic. Leaders earn their place by their merit. Not by hierarchy.
🚨 Breaking News: #Engineers should be cynical, says expert on stating the obvious! 😱 Apparently, making your managers happy is the secret to #success, shocking absolutely no one in the history of employment. 🤯 But remember, dear engineers, you're not just pawns in a techy chess game, you're also... wait for it... professionals! 🎉
https://www.seangoedecke.com/a-little-bit-cynical/ #cynicism #workplace #management #humor #professionalism #HackerNews #ngated
#NotNews24 | #UnbreaklingInterstellaCakeForBreakfastDayNotNews; #IT's #DefinitelyNotNews about #MarineEngineers and #Engineering... And, #SomeWeather...
#IT's been #JollySunny in #TheOutside and #MyLittleBigBuddy and I #MetUp with #MyBigBiggerBuddy, #Bob and his #NewToyJoy...
#HappyHappy #FictionalChristmas, #OneAndAll...
#PictureTheScene... #1934 and #RollsRoyce #Deliver this #HandCraftedMonster for #TheFirstTime...
#MyBigBiggerBuddy has just #TakenOwnership of this #Marvel of #BritishEngineering; he's a #MarineEngineer by #Trade - we #Engineers should #StickTogether with #SomethingSticky...
#Between #TheThreeOfUs we have #FiveCitizenships...
🧙⚔️🤖:wolfparty:🤖⚔️🧙 | :fediverse:🦹:PirateBadge:🦄:PirateBadge:🦹:fediverse:
#BeingEuropean #MostlyEurope #StayingEuropean #BritishEngineeringExcellence
“For #Renault, its new all-electric #Twingo, set to hit the road in 2026, is the first to come out of a new design process it launched through a unit in #Shanghai. The Advanced #China Development Centre has about 150 local #engineers and other #specialists to help it move faster.”
The key improvement to increasing speed, more specialised design technicians and engineers?
#carmakers <https://archive.md/iiGOp> / (paywall) <https://www.ft.com/content/f6ffadca-0004-45aa-9610-37464fe29e4c>
The Case of Engineers Who Dismiss AI
https://terriblesoftware.org/2025/12/19/the-strange-case-of-engineers-who-dismiss-ai/
#HackerNews #Engineers #Dismiss #AI #AI #Criticism #Tech #Debate #Software #Development #AI #Awareness
🚀🥽 MATLAB: The Jurassic Park of coding languages! #Engineers need "whiteboard-style" code, apparently, because nothing says cutting-edge like scribbling math on a chalkboard. Keep pretending those surveys are wrong while the rest of us move on. 🦖💻
https://runmat.org/blog/in-defense-of-matlab-whiteboard-style-code #MATLAB #JurassicPark #whiteboardcoding #techhumor #codinglanguages #HackerNews #ngated
Nice blog in the discussion about AI & coding,
"AI can replace most of programming, but programming isn’t the job.
Programming is a task. It’s one of many things you do as part of your work. But if you’re a software engineer, your actual job is more than typing code into an editor."
https://terriblesoftware.org/2025/12/11/ai-can-write-your-code-it-cant-do-your-job/
#AI #coding #software #engineers #programming
Spain is officially restituting the reputation and status of Emilio Herrera and Irene Aguilera, the couple who are known for designing the first space suit (see breviloquium above) and being the first Spanish female pilot, respectively. Herrera, an engineer, also became eventually President of the Spanish Republic in exile, after having to flee Franco's persecution.
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