Thanks, CareerGPT! Can’t wait to start the next chapter of my life.
Before that, they were known as "generalists", autodidacts, polymaths, etc.
The thing is that pretty much any clever person that's easily invested in novel things can become one of these people, so this label isn't reserved for people who are generalists, it is reserved for people who are not specialists.
If you care about things like income and career progression, do not let yourself become one of these people. They aren't valued, and it doesn't take a lot of staring at job postings or talking to hiring managers to figure out why.
Well-run organizations -- that is, organizations that can afford to pay good money for talent -- have clearly defined roles for people, and need only a few generalists to handle the nitty-gritties of cross-department communications and management.
The organizations that most need generalists are the ones that are constantly struggling to get their crap working right, so they need people who can do a little bit of everything, and as a consequence, they also can't afford to pay such people a lot of money.
It is much easier for a specialist to argue their value than a generalist. I believe there was a frontpage "Ask HN" about this today, probably why this article was posted now.
If however you can decouple happiness and satisfaction from income, and chasing novelties makes you happy, then by all means, keep doing what you love.
You'll just never make the same kind of money as the person that knows Kubernetes backwards and forwards and not much else.
is there a statistics on this?
This seems like it might be Apple‘s standard thing of just promoting whatever their newest products are in all communications.
...which leads to users upgrading their devices
I mean, it's not a bad marketing strategy when most people who can afford an apple device already have 1+
But we're starting to grow out of it, and tech is helping us track down crimes that were near-impossible to track down.
It’s crazy how fast it’s happened.
Once the mosquitos start spreading one of the many terrible diseases they can carry the government officials will finally act, after it’s too late to save the first victims of an avoidable problem.
Horrible quality of life issue that should be fixable if the government officials can get their act together soon!
If you’re in a situation where you’re thinking that TRIM might be good enough, then you clearly don’t care that much about the data potentially being recovered by sophisticated attacker. You just don’t want it to be trivial to recover that data. In that case, even old cyphers and small keys is probably good enough.
But once again, if your really care about destroying your data, use something’s that’s explicitly designed to destroy data!