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It’s really funny that you have chuwi making laptops with the most high end screens imaginable that you can’t find anywhere else in western OEMS and then attach it to a multiple generations old x86 CPU and a weak 35 watt battery.

Apparently the weaker batteries are there because Chinese students dont often use their laptops in class and only use their laptops around 3-5 hours all around the day, go figure.

I should reword what I mean: I mean that most programmers do not think using a materialist philosophy. Their decision making is delegated to the decisions of capital and liberal idealism of solving capitalism through technological superiority.

A majority of programmers in the West do not want to admit that their field is and has always been predicated on the wholesale suffering of the most vulnerable. That a majority of the innovation in the field is hoarded by oligarchs or that the real economies of their countries are barely holding onto to support them. These conversations are entirely absent in favor of profit margins and finance capital (because CS has been instrumental in coordinating and providing a space for finance capital to thrive)

The people reading up on machine learning are the ones who want to exploit it for personal gain which leads to them absorbing the perspective of capitalists. People don’t go into CS for their love of lambda calculus, they go into it because the West’s austerity neoliberal hell has destroyed all other career paths. The US has made this explicit with DOGE but this is the pattern in all western countries and in the global south.

The CS track at my uni is far, far easier and less demanding than most other majors including ones like psychology. My humanities professors (I’m doing a double major) complain that the CS program is so railroaded that students are being exposed to the liberal arts less and less each year. Like, the resume course I mentioned counts for your core communication requirement for every student when in the past that was reserved for a mandatory foreign language track that all students had to take. They made this change and then lied to all the liberal arts departments that it wouldn’t affect them when the reality is that far less students are choosing the humanities and thus the admin sees this as a justification to defund the liberal arts school even further.

Capitalists do not want smart, dedicated and innovative computer scientists they want the next prole they can overwork so they can build their new scam to destroy more of the real economy. Most “computer scientists” are like western economists who cheerlead for capital.

trained programmers or computer scientists

You overestimate the abilities of programmers. Most of these labor aristocrats are paid to enact the will of their bosses and do not think of much else. There is little to no materialist thought in this field dominated by venture capital and military weapons contracts and that’s by design.

My intro to computer science course in undergrad had zero discussions, zero readings, zero writings about the position of computers in society, it was basically a shitty coding job training course and related very, very little to actual intellectual thought outside of being able to write a specific type of computer document (python) in a very limited capacity. My professor also unironically believes in Chinese slave labor death camps in 2025 when I innocently mentioned studying in China post-undergrad, go figure.

the 1 mandatory writing course for engineers? How to write your resume.

They’re still doing John Xina and Mao Zedong edits of him to this day. Hell even social credit is still being spammed.

Reddit will go down as the single greatest consent manufacturing effort in human history atp.

Comrade Gordon Chang has never faltered in his mission to deter the imperialists.

Meanwhile, officials at the US Indo-Pacific Command have expressed concern over the depletion of long-range munitions like JASSMs, which they see as essential for potential conflicts in the Pacific, including against China

Another day another China does nothing and

Humanity’s soul shines through Yemen.

China, Russia, North Korea

Conveniently all enemies of the US State Department. Don’t those tankies know that these countries are bad because checks notes they do the authoritarianisms.