Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: For The Gamers Date: 12 Jan 2025 20:32:36 GMT Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: <9mu4ojh0lqvt03jgmqsu3kot55df17mhq5@4ax.com> <6783be2a$0$536$426a74cc@news.free.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net bsN7UZ3NFaaeGNrERrPdFwAn+KwkZULX9V3AVXFzSbVig+Cano Cancel-Lock: sha1:bPLnWlhtcOwsQKT1nHNfdr8WCMw= sha256:puu2cRgwkqSPXRWj3eD9hk1XSvOpse9gg8TpR6NU1wA= User-Agent: Pan/0.155 (Kherson; fc5a80b8) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.advocacy:683865 On 12 Jan 2025 13:05:46 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote: > I can understand one can become bored with programming in some company > doing always the same stuff. But in a general way, I don't understand > how one can get bored with programming. I didn't get bored with programming when I took a few years off but I started to question if crouching behind a keyboard was a proper job for a man. The start of my career in the machine tools industry was very physical. There's something about designing the control circuity for a 200 ton molding press and seeing it in action that is rewarding. It was also hot, dirty, noisy, and I've been soaked by hydraulic fluid more than once when a line blew. As time went on it became more and more abstract. I've sort of reverted to my roots with microcontrollers interacting directly with physical sensors, servos, H-bridges, and so forth. The IoT is getting back to reality.