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From: Zen Cycle <funkmaster@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: RE: Re: Facebook Account
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2024 17:02:42 -0400
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On 8/21/2024 1:38 PM, cyclintom wrote:
> On Tue Aug 20 16:41:39 2024 Zen Cycle  wrote:
>> On 8/20/2024 2:01 PM, Radey Shouman wrote:
>>> Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> On Mon, 19 Aug 2024 20:50:54 GMT, cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> You knowing nothing about programming are probably mystified.
>>>>
>>>> I hate to disappoint you, but I know very little about programming.  I
>>>> can do some programming when necessary but prefer to have someone else
>>>> do my programming.  I also don't mix socially with programmers.
>>>> Despite these limitations, I've been successfully self-employed as a
>>>> computer consultant and computer repairman for 36 years (1984 to
>>>> 2020):
>>>> <https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeff-liebermann-151823/details/experience/>
>>>> While knowing how to program can be useful, it's not a requirement for
>>>> knowing how to configure a Facebook account, knowing how to login,
>>>> being able to type your email address or login name correctly, and fix
>>>> various Windoze software related problems.
>>>>
>>>> My knowing very little about programming was not an accident or the
>>>> result of a head injury.  It was an intentional decision that I had to
>>>> reluctantly make when I moved to Silicon Valley.  At the time (1973 ?)
>>>> the pundits and experts were proclaiming that an engineer, who didn't
>>>> immediately learn how to program, would soon become obsolete and
>>>> unemployable.  I realized that there was not enough time to
>>>> simultaneously stay up to date on RF (radio frequency) design and
>>>> learn how to program.  Since the herd was stampeding in the direction
>>>> of programming, I decided that concentrating on RF design was a better
>>>> choice.  There were times when I regretted that decision, but over the
>>>> years, it has worked quite well for me.  Predictably, most of the
>>>> analog and RF engineers I know can also program, but few of the
>>>> programmers I've met can do anything useful with RF design. Meanwhile,
>>>> the same programmers are complaining that their jobs are being
>>>> outsourced to less expensive overseas sweat shops.  In the future,
>>>> programming might be performed by AI's.
>>>
>>> A great deal of programming is done today by AIs (Actual Indians).
>>
>> HAH!!!
>> That's cute. I won't be repeating it to my Indian boss though.
>>
>>
>>> I
>>> won't hold my breath waiting for artificial intelligence to become
>>> reliable or cost effective.
>>
>> Feel free to breathe, it's here, now.
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> The one that is the head of assembly or the one that is the production manager??

Neither, VP of Engineering.

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