@maaikees@sw-development-is.social
2026-04-19 10:23 UTC
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@rotnroll666@mastodon.social 2026-04-19 10:29
@maaikees@sw-development-is.social honestly, I’d love to make that “cycle to Utrecht for fries” thing happen one day and have a chat in person again after more than a decade since you have been in Aachen > Studying history will make your eyes bleed because you learn that humans are basically idiots who make the same mistakes, over and over again. 100x this.
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@leah@chaos.social 2026-04-19 11:29
@maaikees@sw-development-is.social nice read! Thanks for sharing. I still think the most important classes from my applied computer sciences major where the "soft skill" lectures. I would go even further. There is no field of "real" or inherent science, there is only a scientific framework you can or can not use.
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@nuthatch@infosec.exchange 2026-04-19 15:15
@maaikees@sw-development-is.social @sdarlington@mas.to that pull quote is going to put people off, which is a shame, more people should read it
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@johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz 2026-04-19 16:07
@maaikees@sw-development-is.social - great article. One thing it doesn't emphasize is exactly how studying history would have helped these people: it's not just the subject that lets you know you're doomed; it also has examples of how people wriggled out of tough situations. Of course you know this, but I bet some people don't!
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@SolarDavy@climatejustice.social 2026-04-19 19:24
@maaikees@sw-development-is.social great article, true on every count. I have a related question to history, which I have not studied (I went for software engineering, which is not engineering..). What I was taught about history (in Netherlands) are specific highlights, like black plague, roman empire, kindgoms in Europe, etc. However, there are huge gaps between many of the events I've learned about. So I have a thought, that I want to read more about, but don't know the search term (and Google broke search). So I'm not asking you: hey please explain how I'm wrong, but merely, how's this thing called?? My thought (maybe the same): Could it be that our society only retells the stories that either explain why we are how we are now (like no more rule of kingdom) or what has always happened (look: war, genocide, people exploiting other people). And therefore most people have a very biased view of history. So anything that happens now shouldn't be explained away by our limited coverage of history. Like yes we have had wars, but we also had long stretches without war, but those are boring, so those years are skipped. But it's not as if we're only going to war all the time. Similar with the position of women in our society, there have been societies where there was a more equal balance. But most of repeated history is about the times where men were in power. Solidifying the idea that it's the way things have always been. Or with our relationship to nature. Sorry for long rant, but thought maybe you have some good search terms/book tips where I can read more to better understand how I'm most likely wrong.
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@willowpje@mastodon.nl 2026-04-20 06:11
@maaikees@sw-development-is.social my previous job as a translator has been all but automated away by AI (my current job isn't safe either), and the industry was already well on its way before that. My colleagues were saying 'but we deliver better quality', which was and mostly still is true. But letting it burn won't work, as it's glaringly obvious that most companies don't care about quality. Customers will buy the product anyway. My colleagues know it, the IT people know it, but fear keeps their heads in the sand.