I've been hearing stories like this for the last two or three years. Computer Science professors having to teach freshmen what a file system is. Are you ready for a world where the elderly dominate coding? 1/3https://twitter.com/hacks4pancakes/status/1190055381684424704 …
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Replying to @SamoBurja
They say the generation who was best with cars grew up when cars didn't work that well (broke down all the time, and you had to fix them, etc). Makes sense that the same would apply to computers.
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Replying to @SamoBurja
In "A Deepness in the Sky" Vernor Vinge actually describes an advanced interplanetary civilization that collapses due to accumulated technical debt throughout their infrustructure. It's a incredible story.
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Replying to @DavidSHolz @SamoBurja
err...that's certainly not the main plot. Is that a small aside somewhere?
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presumably Canberra in the period up to Briscoe Gap. Their problems didn't seem to be mainly tech debt to me, though.
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(Vinge makes you fill in the canvas like this a lot, so it's natural we saw it differently.)
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I'll see if I can find the passage later
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Replying to @DavidSHolz @abecedarius and
Here are some of the related passages. Agreed a bit vague, but still cherish everything in this book.
the story of wanderers across time&space coming together to fight the idea that 'everything eventually dies' & saving an advanced civilization from the end of its days.pic.twitter.com/N0ElkNereR
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Oh yeah, I misremembered the planet's name. Thanks! It's one of my favorite books ever.
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Indeed
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