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 It's so difficult to do IT project work with the newest crop of teenagers because they don't know how to communicate using a PC (like with e-mail), and they refuse to joint-edit cloud documents. They just screenshot everything and send it over WhatsApp, or ask ChatGPT. 
 Accurate as fuck and totally terrifying 
 Zoomers zoomin’ is real 
 I'm completely overwhelmed.

I put a slide set online and sent all 10 of them the link per e-mail and 8 couldn't figure out how to get emails and the rest don't like to use computers (hello? We're studying CompSci. 🙄)

So everyone just made their own slides and sent screenshots over WhatsApp. But I don't have WhatsApp, so I sent mine to someone over Telegram and he forwards it. 
 these youngins seriously are detached from reality 
 They're really smart, but they mostly use their brains to figure out how to do the least-possible effort. 
 Unironically a good sign. There’s hope for them yet. But damn is it painful to watch 
 That is scary. I knew compsci was full of leftists, but didnt realize that meant they are also functionally retarded 
 being functionally retarded is the necessary precondition for obtaining leftism. 
 Usually technical degrees require a few neurons that arent perminently attached to government media reports 
 apparently you havent been to Uni in a while... 
 I think the nightmares have prevented that 
 Email in 2024?

Like it or not, ChatGPT is gay, but its one of the best tools avalible so you might just be old. 
 Email is a protocol, not a product. You wouldn't understand.

I am old, but I'm also not so clueless as to think I can use ChatGPT on the hand-written final exam and I'm not idiotic enough to cheat on assignments we don't even turn in or get graded on. 
 I just want a text without 12 emojis from today's youth 
 even when they know the answer, they still ask GPT to confirm or complete it, lest they forget some aspect.

related stuff I don't cover in classes, but GPT does, now keeps appearing in their answers. 
 
 They keep using gmail or some other shitty client. 
 We actually all have emails from our uni's private OWA. 
 That’s actually great, why aren’t they using this ? 
 They can't figure out how to use it. Or don't want to figure it out.

The school has a webpage with easy instructions (click this link, type in username and password, click arrow button). You could even do it on your phone. Or add the email to your email app.

I don't get it. The teenagers I started out with were totally different. What a difference a few years makes. 
 Every now and then, we get a bad batch I guess. 
 WhatsApp is a German plague. 
 The kids don't use Google Docs anymore? 
 Nope. Boomertech. Couldn't even get then to use the uni's Sharepoint.

They were like WTF is Sharepoint? 
 😩 
 You got old, Mikey. You're a Boomer, now. 
 👴 
 The most amazing thing is how most of them have never used version control software and that's legit like 25% of software development. When Git course? 
 git is unteachable. Its like driving, its a skill that needs to be developed with practice under supervision. 
 not my experience. They all use git for everything after their first programming discipline. Specially after the first time they miss some assignment due to a broken laptop or confusion over manually saved versions.

And they learned git when I was still using svn (decades ago) 
 I didn't learn Git until about halfway through college.  They don't teach it right away in schools, all the time. 
 We haven't touched on version control, at all. We're all map sorts and boolean algebra. 
 That's because many college CS professors come to CS out of a pure math background.  Version control has way more to do with software development practices than computation theory. 
 Yeah, we had one sw development course, where we learned about the difference between waterfall and agile, and that was that. 
 Real agile has never been tried. 
 and they send screenshots even of pure text outputs, which could be easily copy-pasted 

like asking about compilation / dependency errors. 

then you get MB of junk images.  
 well, i work with a guy who has a BSc CS and he's a lot more humble than that, so it's just common now not always, kinda glad to be working with someone who isn't like those kids sound, omg i would have quit months ago if my junior was like that 
 yeah, i am glad i didn't do it also

and you are actually better than them if you can actually write a working thing

most of them won't do that until 4-12 months into their first job 
 lol, and doesn't sound like there is any actual engineers in the course so they will be ghetto dwellers like me 
 well, you could just build actual things? 
 i remember when rocketchat was a thing that shitcoiners used

now they are on tg and discord and nobody seems to care about decentralization

it's like they gave up on this marketing schtick and are getting close to just saying "here, buy our ponzi, sell out before everyone else and you win" 
 😂 
 I kind of appreciate this direct honesty. “Here buy this shitcoin we’re making, we’re gonna pump it and you try and sell before everyone else” 
 “It’s a useless scam, and it brings nothing new. It’s just a new shit token on solana, with a new name. But the name is funny, so buy it” 
 yep, idk what to say, this is daily business in my work discord "meme coins this meme coins that" really, has shitcoinery degenerated fully to the point where it's just a naked pump and dump? 
 That’s what it is yes. Naked pump and dump. So whoever buys in truly has no one to blame but himself 
 not really anything we can do about the psychotic mfs who run things that get popular and the fact that even more psychotic mfs run the silos that enable this whole shitshow

but that story is coming to an end, very very soon 
 it means the scam is almost done with

i'm glad because i met people who ran ponzi schemes back in 2005... and one of them honestly i'm gonna enjoy watching him (i want to specifically request to see) his soul being snuffed out, what a fucking omg i can't explain what a hollow psychopath he was 
 Must have been a specifically evil ponzi 
 lol, bro, i met ponzi guys back in 2006 and was regaled by a story from one, one night, about how he cleaned up after a hit job, was disposing of bloody clothes of the victim

the line between lying and murder is a very thin line

the more absolute you are about it, the better for your health and your future

even if it means you live poor

better to live poor than relive every pain you helped inflict on the rest of the world due to your heartless, pathetic, weak submission 
 the satisfaction is all in the engineering, even if it's difficult with the managers sometimes

people are easy puzzles to solve, that's why it's boring 
 😂 
 yeah, i'm telling you, stop now, stop paying for courses, just persuade hubby you can build a thing, so first you need to pause, breathe, more pause, more breathe, and then come up with a plan for something that solves a top tier problem for your man and he will keep funding you 
 my mother is a textile artist and she did ok in her CS electives... that was also where i first encountered email and unix for the first time, it was so cool because one of her colleagues was emailing her and she was showing me this and i was like 👀  
 vivid memories of a dark room with green CRTs everywhere and hushed tones and shuffling sounds 
 well, that is fun too, unless you can't decide what is in the garden

i would be out in my garden here except i can't put goats on it 
 you need to use those horns to fight a bit more 
 “It’s a useless scam, and it brings nothing new. It’s just a new shit token on solana, with a new name. But the name is funny, so buy it” 
 yep, idk what to say, this is daily business in my work discord "meme coins this meme coins that" really, has shitcoinery degenerated fully to the point where it's just a naked pump and dump? 
 That’s what it is yes. Naked pump and dump. So whoever buys in truly has no one to blame but himself 
 not really anything we can do about the psychotic mfs who run things that get popular and the fact that even more psychotic mfs run the silos that enable this whole shitshow

but that story is coming to an end, very very soon 
 it means the scam is almost done with

i'm glad because i met people who ran ponzi schemes back in 2005... and one of them honestly i'm gonna enjoy watching him (i want to specifically request to see) his soul being snuffed out, what a fucking omg i can't explain what a hollow psychopath he was 
 Must have been a specifically evil ponzi 
 lol, bro, i met ponzi guys back in 2006 and was regaled by a story from one, one night, about how he cleaned up after a hit job, was disposing of bloody clothes of the victim

the line between lying and murder is a very thin line

the more absolute you are about it, the better for your health and your future

even if it means you live poor

better to live poor than relive every pain you helped inflict on the rest of the world due to your heartless, pathetic, weak submission 
 yep, idk what to say, this is daily business in my work discord "meme coins this meme coins that" really, has shitcoinery degenerated fully to the point where it's just a naked pump and dump? 
 That’s what it is yes. Naked pump and dump. So whoever buys in truly has no one to blame but himself 
 not really anything we can do about the psychotic mfs who run things that get popular and the fact that even more psychotic mfs run the silos that enable this whole shitshow

but that story is coming to an end, very very soon 
 you need to use those horns to fight a bit more 
 lol, bro, i met ponzi guys back in 2006 and was regaled by a story from one, one night, about how he cleaned up after a hit job, was disposing of bloody clothes of the victim

the line between lying and murder is a very thin line

the more absolute you are about it, the better for your health and your future

even if it means you live poor

better to live poor than relive every pain you helped inflict on the rest of the world due to your heartless, pathetic, weak submission