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  • SpicyLizards@reddthat.comtoTechnology@lemmy.world•New Junior Developers Can’t Actually Code.English
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    5 days ago

    I have seen this too much. My current gripe isn’t fresh devs, as long as they are teachable and care.

    My main pain over the last several years has been the bulk of ‘give-no-shit’ perms/contractors who don’t want to think or try when they can avoid it.

    They run a web of lies until it is no longer sustainable (or the project is done for contractors) and then again its someone else’s problem.

    There are plenty of 10/20 year plus and devs who don’t know what they are doing and don’t care whose problem it will be as long as it isnt theirs.

    I’m sick of writing coding 101 standards for 1k+ a day ‘experts’. More sick of PR feedback where it’s a battle to get things done in a maintainable manner from said ‘experts’.

  • SpicyLizards@reddthat.comtoWikipedia@lemmy.world•Goldstone (glass)English
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    8 days ago

    Interesting related page:

    Helenite, also known as Mount St. Helens obsidian, emerald obsidianite, and ruby obsidianite, is a glass made from the fused volcanic rock dust from Mount St. Helens and marketed as a gemstone. Helenite was first created accidentally after the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980. Workers from the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company were attempting to salvage equipment damaged after the volcanic eruption. Using acetylene torches, they noticed that the intense heat was melting the nearby volcanic ash and rock and turning it a greenish color. The silica, aluminium, iron, and trace amounts of chromium and copper present in the rocks and ash in the area, combined with the heat of the torches, transformed the volcanic particles into a compound that would be later commercially replicated as helenite.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helenite?wprov=sfla1