What you call politics (US political “issues”) and politicking (the act of seeking and organizing power or influence) are different things.

Maybe US political issues have no spot in tech but politics are a part of being human.

Conversation starts with “we realize this looks bad”. No shit. Thanks for the threat.

Kudos for immersing yourself in it!

Sure, I guess I maintain its that’s not what sarcasm is but we do agree on the point

They’re not being sarcastic, they are repeating Google’s (bs) justification

You missed my point that if professional engineering societies in Canada want to take ownership of software and electronics, they better do something and not just say they’re regulating it and sit on it with no clear definition for what it even is.

If they were doing their job, we wouldn’t need to debate what a software engineer is. They’ve let us down and they’re getting away with it.

I disagree, I believe the regulatory agencies do nothing in Canada to legitimize their claim to regulating software development. Heck, they do nothing for electronics or semiconductors or anything smaller than the power grid.

I know you’re not the owner of the project, but for your knowledge this is a static page hosted on Github Pages. There’s no “responding to demands” like a traditional web app!

Curious, why the cloudflare analytics?

I like that your emoj or Unicode whatever displays for me as OBJ

Its very web 4

Not always. Some are designed for areas with a prevailing wind and deal with smaller direction changes using pitch (angle) of the blades

Let alone power plants billowing steam and smoke

And they don’t damage the environment as much as a hydro dam

And nowhere as ugly as giant farms of solar

Honestly its probably the BEST looking power source

Some 12yo’s discover it through things like Minecraft and arguably that’s the best time to start.

If someone put a “Redstone circuits” unit in a general science class in grade 7, and spent just one day talking about the real-world applications think it would be a success.

The entry level work is definitely considered low value, and I can see why, but I don’t think it’s any different than a first year accountant or lawyer for example.

Of course the big accounting firms are also starting to rely on outsourcing and foreign hiring strategies but semiconductor has been doing this for 25+ years already.

And accounting is not really a strategic sector
crucial for developing advanced businesses, high value consumer products, and military technologies…

Its a big missed opportunity that will affect the west for decades to come.

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There is also an education gap. For whatever reason, this type of work is considered extremely niche in North America and even if 100% of local ECE graduates were hired there would still be both a labour and skill shortage.

Also the majority of the people in the local education programs I’ve seen are also studying from abroad, so they need a visa once they graduate to actually do the work.

Its odd, since it is such a strategic industry, that there is not a more clear strategy here beyond just hiring abroad to fill the massive gaps.

In some ways these companies benefit from the extra power they have over their workers when they depend on employment for their right to stay in the country, but eventually the companies just end up looking like a less promising risk to take versus just going to work in other countries.

That’s what I mean by “the grade you need”. If you need RON 87 don’t “splurge” for 93. It’s not better its just different and more expensive.

I always imagine this when hard rebooting any device

… Yeah just buy the grade you need not the “expensive” one, it’s a commodity!

Aw I was getting some “Weather on the ones - REMIX” ideas hah