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What’s the scale? I’m proposing:
1 - able to turn on the device (not necessarily turn it off)
9 - can train and run own LLM (from scratch, not from an existing model)
10 - knows how to reliably set up a printer10 - knows how to reliably set up a printer
What is this, D&D levels? Let’s keep this fantasy nonsense out of the rating scale!
- Inert object, no ability to move, perceive, or interact with any tech
- Root vegetable, largely unaware of technology
- Nematode or worm, unlikely to use tools much
- Lizard, capable of accidentally pressing buttons
- Blue Jay, might learn to deliberately press a button
- Orangutan, could make and use simple tools
- Human baby, likes to grab things, can use iphone
- American high school student, can use electric toothbrush
- Chess club member, probably knows javascript
- Go club member, probably knows C++
- Kernel hacker
As someone who wrote not only one, but two kernels, can I claim an 11?
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11s hate this one simple trick !
Only if you make something like TempleOS.
I’m not that crazy. I built a fully working preemptive multitasking OS for my C64 (although it was a heavily modified machine), and another one for a customer that used eight processors communicating over SCSI.
I created a patch for Linux 0.97 (±, at least somewhere below 1.0), too.
Sounds like fun!
Does a university assignment in assembly count?
If your list of different assembly languages you know exceeds mine…
I’m from the generation who could read 6510 code from hexdumps.
Nah, I could just barely code in the “baby’s first assembly”
Kernal, that’s something to do with popcorn right? I’m definitely a 10
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Idk, its actually a common problem according to SteamDeck users on reddit, so like its not just me. Must’ve accidentally messed with a setting.
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Dependency… magic. Currently I am having to wait for Firefox not loading websites due to a slower DVD drive I am uploading from to cloud in another tab.
Maybe some internal QoS thingy where it thinks the network connection is slow.And recently I had issues with laptop taking a very long time to resume from sleep or turning screen back on due to iio-sensor-proxy, a program responsible for… at least determining physical screen orientation.
First one sounds like a RAM issue, or maybe bandwidth. Uploading directly from a disc sounds incredibly resource hungry.
Neither. Network-wise everything would work, but other Firefox tabs. Especially when I tried uploading multiple files at once, which caused too much seeking.
I was still able to stream from VLC, while the same stream would time out in Firefox.Anyway, I just had to reboot due to a certain runaway situation. Something happened with UDF-fs that caused 100% CPU through excessive logging.
They used the sink as a stepstool obviously
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So what you are saying is my estimate of 8/10 is too low, right? Right…?
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I laughed way too hard at this
Can confirm: I rate myself a 7/10. I know a lot about a few things and a moderate amount about many more, but there’s always more to learn…
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9.9/10
If I’m not interested then you can get 5/10 advice for free just to be polite.
Skill is not knowledge, it’s the ability and hardheadedness to acquire knowledge kicking and screaming to make the world bend to your will so that the printer will actually print.
Yup, getting skills is just worthwhile pain. It’s been hard trying to convince some of the younger tech interested people I know to put in the effort instead of going down the AI route, but I know exactly where that’ll lead them. You don’t get good at this stuff by succeeding, it’s the endless failure.
Please give references for the scale
Also Richard Stallman – the man who wrote the original Emacs and GCC – has never installed a GNU+Linux distro, and he has no idea/interest in it.
8/10 maybe more, maybe less. Software developer, don’t really have issues with tech, but put me in front of a quantum computer and I sure as shit would be lost, but fine with consumer products.
Same just about.
Like I know some truely brilliant people. I’m just happy riding the coattails.
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The general public and using technology is like comparing speaking with a dog.
Yes they sort of understand but let’s be honest: Not really.
8/10.
Software engineer. Respected across a small public tech company. Most folks who do 30 seconds of GitHub snooping are impressed. There’s a decent chance you’ve used code I wrote. Hopefully it keeps working.
No idea how to use Windows. Or mac. Lots of missing network and security stuff. Struggle every time I have to do python package management. Terrified of C++.
to be fair it’s hard to be good at using windows when Microsoft’s own documentation is often incorrect
Compared to people who work on cryptography and AI magic? Like 2/10. Compared to Boomers? 9/10.
The number of computer scientists I’ve known that couldn’t set up a VPN, or alter a firewall rule, or change the layout on a web page slightly, or set their out of office replies…
Basically the experience I’ve had is that those people you imagine are gods of tech are frequently terrible at tech beyond their very narrow niche.
But boomers, yeah. Even my mom who was a programmer and mostly stayed current on tech. But when Facebook stopped using a chronological news feed, she couldn’t handle it.
I have an English Master’s and my wife has a PhD in Comp Sci. Guess who sets up all the techie stuff. That’ll be meeeee.
PS fuck Facebook’s feed. I found out about a friend’s death 2 weeks after she died (her parents couldn’t get at her address book so they posted with her account on Facebook instead). I had to tell her other friends because NOBODY had seen the post.
Decimal or binary? I’d say a two.
Depends on if I care of not.
Phone: 3/10. I don’t really care other than googling “how to turn off annoying feature”.
Writing Software: 7/10. It’s not beautiful, but it does one thing reasonably well and I finished it in an afternoon. Just don’t ask me to write a GUI.
Writing Software for industrial machinery: I’ve done it for a living for more than a decade. Still rather skip the GUI part.
A solid 4, I think. Sure, I can build a PC and install an OS but both of those have been pretty much plug and play for decades at this point.
Don’t ask me about your smartphone, your smart home devices or your Windows 10/11 problems, I don’t have a clue about any of that. If you visited my home you’d be forgiven for thinking it was abandoned 20 years ago.
I can usually figure out basic tech I’ve never used before, but I’d prefer to have the manual, help or hindrance though that may be.
If you blindly run commands without thinking, you’re gonna have a bad time in Linux.
SteamOS is also not hard to use, especially if you use it as intended, but if you start going outside the box on things, you can definitely break stuff. Nintendo switch would have the same problems if they let you touch the knobs that valve does with SteamOS
SteamOS is also not hard to use, especially if you use it as intended
(Isn’t causally violating copyright regulations “as intended”? 👀)
1 out of 10
Retired I.T.
Told my family that if they ask me to help with an I.T. related issue, I’ll bring my hammer.
Fuck printers.
I think it is hard to give an objective rating on this since even extremely skilled individuals (probably half of Lemmy by societal standards) tend to skew their ratings toward the middle. Basically what Dunning-Krueger actually found from their research
That said… I’d rate myself as a 6/10. Maybe I actually know more than that
