• foodandart@lemmy.zip
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    7 hours ago

    …easy foundational questions like how many bits in a byte…

    GTFO.

    I mean, yeah… perhaps it’s to be expected. https://www.theverge.com/22684730/students-file-folder-directory-structure-education-gen-z - if this is true, it’s as the methods of using computers and various devices has been infantilized and made too easy.

    Yeah… let’s obscure the inner working of computing and make the process as opaque to the user as possible. It’ll be fine… no negative consequences at all.

    Colleges do not matriculate anymore (that’s in the British sense of the word, where one has to show actual knowledge in the degree field one is seeking before enrolling, and TBH, they haven’t done so for a very long time, actually…) so this is what we get.

    Higher ed in the US is just about da moneys…

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      7 hours ago

      It is ridiculous. I am interviewing for embedded systems development where we frequently write to specific bits in a register. I am sure these kids have had to learn something, but I can’t figure out a polite way to ask them to give me some examples of what.

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        There was a series of questions I heard in a political discussion about whether or not any given politician understood what the internet was, and if they really had any idea of how to regulate it.

        They are… “Explain the differences between, the internet, the world wide web, a search engine and a browser.”

        If the person could not answer those 4 questions , well… they shouldn’t have been trying to write legislation about it. I think that still stands as a basic foundational step to start from