@matigo BTW, what's "vibe coding"? I've seen you use that word before. I'm guessing it just means to program or code something without really caring about the details, as long as it gets the job done—a makeshift solution, I would imagine?
// @gtwilson
@matigo How do you communicate the value of what you offer to your clients? Most people will settle for what's "good enough", especially when they don't understand the value of what's being offered by higher-priced alternatives. It would seem that those kinds of customers, those who don't understand the value of what you are trying to offer, might be better customers for someone else. I'm lucky, because so far I've never been in a position where I had to explain why having a human translate this particular material would be better than a machine. I think my customers are intelligent and experienced enough to understand the difference.
If my customers would ever happen to complain that they can get their translations done for cheaper by AI or solely by machine translation providers, I would tell them: be my guest. See what happens, and good luck. Those customers who don't care about the details, the context, the extra work and the experience I might offer are not my customers.
// @gtwilson
@gtwilson That’s good to hear. I think that people want to learn new things at any age. The main reason why they might not could be because they think they can’t.
@phoneboy Sounds like it could be interesting, but also troublesome from time to time.
Enjoyed learning about CSS combinators last night. They're not too intuitive at first, but along with the :first-child, :last-child and :nth-child pseudo-classes, it seems like they can play a useful part in styling HTML.
@matigo If by "school" you are referring to compulsory education as it is known in most countries, I don't know how much I can argue with you. I certainly don't remember much from my days in grades 1–12.
I've thought about that lately, how so very little of what we learned in school seems to stick with us as we get older, and how our life experiences outside of compulsory education and our hobbies or interests tend to stick with us much more. There is the embarrassment I will always feel in not being able to help my daughter with her homework of learning facts and formulas, because I have all but forgotten most of that. On the other hand, my language skills were probably reinforced not in school per se, but by reading books and being interested in them. Math and the sciences (except for astronomy) never stuck with me, so I suppose that compulsory education failed me in that respect too.
The people who became teachers who genuinely wanted to be teachers probably eventually learn that they can teach in other settings besides traditional schools, and have a potentially bigger impact.
// @phoneboy
@matigo Good point about the choices we have when using tech. Maybe one of the problems is that people are not well informed and educated about the real costs, both financial and environmental, that these data centers pose. It doesn't seem like something that's taught in school, not yet.
// @phoneboy