I Want to Become a Computer Programmer

I um...

I am not looking to blame Immigrants that I am a poor student that has trouble staying on task day after day.

That is completely my own fault.

I personally remember when I was younger because of all the Old farts I knew I resolved myself over and over that I recognized we were living in a world where things were changing even faster than they had for every generation that came before us and I have watched from a Privileged outsider position as empires and gigantic corporate powers have crumbled under the Boot of innovation and I have learned the central lesson of Wisdom of the Current era: Resolve yourself as you age against getting stuck in your ways, Always be learning. Always be Changing. Always be adapting.

The last thing I ever wanted for myself was to become stuck in my ways. I have resisted that.

I remember thinking that as a kid. Recently Visited a family friend who did not even own a Computer any longer, we had donated one to her as she was our neighbor but she got rid of it at some point. She's old, Nice lady but she has her way of doing things and I don't suppose she'll ever take up a new skill.

I don't want to be like them,.. If I ever start to become like them please remind me of this....

I think that middle aged white men in particular are too BRAIN and intellectually lazy to learn to code so they want to blame Immigrants for their problems.

They learned to mine coal and now that's all they'll ever know how to do..

as for me

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SW-User

There is something problematic in how people in this world judge people, that I know.

PDXNative1986 · 36-40, MVIP

@SW-User Sillicon Valley is not wrong though, Everyone should learn to code. EVERYONE.

SW-User

@PDXNative1986 It's not that I learned to code 20 years ago, limited to python and perl.

PDXNative1986 · 36-40, MVIP

@SW-User I'm less than 10 years your junior and you might have Wisdom I don't but what I want to relay to the older generations is the world is changing now faster than it ever has and there's really no good reason at all to expect things to slow down. Look at where science is going? We're on the cusp of major unravelmments in our understanding of things and we've already got Genetic Editing tools like CRISPR... From a certain angle it might not seem like much but many of the biggest civilization altering changes we've been through were the results of slow and steady incremental advancements, I believe we'll crack Fusion with a return on energy spent eventually for instance and we certainly need to.

The internet itself was the result of incremental progress
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Think about all the two of us have Witnessed over the last 20 years. I still remember an era where I used to beg mom to take me to the video rental store to rent video games and movies...

Do you remember? In our era we are given a front row seat to the Death of an Industry that BUILT America as we know it, Coal.

Change is all around us and I don't suspect the world will have any mercy for those who refuse to roll with these changes.

Unlike former generations I'll be expected to roll with the changes

You likely will too. If there is Wisdom coming from me Always be learning always be changing always be adapting.

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PDXNative1986 · 36-40, MVIP

@SW-User And regarding COMPUTERS in particular do you remember floppy disk? Remember when the only thing you could store data on external to the computer was roughly 4.5 to 5 inches large and could barely store a meg of data?

The largest hard disk drives when I was a kid were roughly 8 gigs, I remember thinking 30 gigs was large.

Now I basically won't buy an HDD below 6 Terabytes...

Moore's law might be slowing down to but that will only effect processing speeds...

Hard drives are going to keep getting larger and larger... our use of Data as a civilization is exploding.

I remember having to reformat drives and reset the master boot record...

Now we use a USB flash key to reinstall windows...

SW-User

@PDXNative1986 Yes, I do remember, why? The use of data, while many wouldn't see, or understand why they do, use more than me. What of it?

PDXNative1986 · 36-40, MVIP

@SW-User I'm just pointing out things are changing all over the place..

SW-User

@PDXNative1986 I'm guessing I knew that before you were 14

PDXNative1986 · 36-40, MVIP

@SW-User I was probably starting to study C in 2000 at 13.

I didn't. I didn't learn where most of our energy came from until the 2016 election for instance.

I liked History and was a left wing activist so being ignorant of the Coal mining strikes is astonishing but I had no idea where the world "Redneck" came from or that I would have been on the side of the "rednecks"" at the time.

This is all history I started to learn in my 30s.

But even still a lot of people are drawn to history for the wisdom it imparts about the current era but if Activist like me have our way the future will not resemble the past.

Now I'm looking for all the changes happening because I know Conservatives want things to remain the same and I hate the status quo.

I want the future to be very different.

PDXNative1986 · 36-40, MVIP

@SW-User I believe we're living in an Era of peaceful upheaval in the sense that people will be forced by circumstances to change jobs change skills etc....

DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

@PDXNative1986 As a comparison, my first hard drive was a 20 mb MFM Seagate ST on a AT clone that I put together myself.

PDXNative1986 · 36-40, MVIP

@DeWayfarer Part of the reason conspiracy theories are getting out of hand is people realize the world is changing and now it's changing even faster and due to the computer revolution most ordinarily folk are living in a world they don't understand and when people don't understand things they tend to go for sinister explanations. "SOMEBODY IS CHANGING THINGS IN A WAY THAT I DON'T LIKE!"

in other words if you expected the Conspiracy theories to calm down or get better at any point LOL NOPE. as your image basically proves it's only going to get worse.

DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

@PDXNative1986 conspiracies have been around before John Wilkes Booth assassinated Lincoln. 😅.

Read captains and kings sometime. Talk about conspiracies!