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  • DarthYoshiBoy@kbin.socialtoTechnology@lemmy.ml•"waves of technological innovation" have gotten faster over time, "students might now find themselves learning skills in college that are obsolete by the time they graduate"
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    2 years ago

    Funny story time, intentionally vague to shield identities:

    I have a friend who was hired to teach a course at a local University for their new CS degree that had a focus on video games some while ago. He was a bit of an expert in a particular portion of the material that they needed, and when they started putting out feelers to find someone to teach the subject matter, everyone locally in the industry gave him the highest praise and said he was the man for the job. The University met with him and eventually selected him to teach, which he did for 3 semesters. After 3 semesters, they dropped him because he didn’t himself have a college degree in what he was teaching (which was something he made very clear in the hiring process.)

    He went into making games straight out of high school, he was basically there at the ground floor, self taught, acknowledged by everyone in the industry locally as a foremost expert in the field where they had him teaching, and they couldn’t keep him because they couldn’t have him teach when he didn’t have a degree in the field. Without his having a degree their program couldn’t be accredited. So… They wanted him to have a degree in a subject he was an originator of and without that degree they had to drop him.

    He makes financial software now because the games industry was/is brutal and he wanted to see his family now and then. I’ve always found it hilarious that a University had to let him go because otherwise the snake wasn’t eating its own tail and the ouroboros apparently can’t have that.

  • DarthYoshiBoy@kbin.socialtoTechnology@lemmy.ml•We Are Retroactively Dropping the iPhone’s Repairability Score | iFixit
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    2 years ago

    As always, there is an XKCD for this.

    https://xkcd.com/538/

    Aside the whole issue that a single component in a system exfiltrating data without cooperation from many of the other components in the system is just patently absurd, the honest truth is that anyone who wants to break your security isn’t going to go to the extreme length of making certain your screen is replaced with a covert unit that can somehow inform them of anything you’re doing when for most cases a pair of binoculars will get the same job done for much cheaper and is at least half as convoluted, a hit to the head with a $5 wrench gets your fingerprint much more easily than a replacement fingerprint scanner does, and most compromises of a user would be far more effectively done in software rather than hardware. Software which constantly has new bugs to exploit while getting a crooked piece of hardware navigated into place is just an absurdly unlikely occurrence that would require a massive coverup the size of which is out of the reach of most entities in existence.

  • DarthYoshiBoy@kbin.socialtoTechnology@lemmy.ml•A decade after a disastrous launch, is Apple Maps finally good?
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    2 years ago

    I’m in the middle of a fairly populated US suburb, and Apple maps still sends anyone trying to find my house 3 blocks away, so I’m going to say that it’s not “finally good.”

    As soon as I get those people to use Google Maps, they’re on their way without issues. I can see why Apple Maps might make the mistake that they do, but the fact is that Google Maps doesn’t and hasn’t ever in the last 15 years. I recently had a bunch of contractors around for quotes on some renovations and the iOS users ended up lost every time while the Android users never had a problem.