• Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    As a software engineer I often think about how laughably useless my skillset would be in any kind of survival or societal reset sort of situation.

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      3 months ago

      You’re a software engineer. You at least know the very basics of digital electronics, and can probably work your way backward to rudimentary power supplies.

      You are far from fucked.

      Mathematicians though? Oof I worry about them, if they did anything too practical they’d be physicists.

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      3 months ago

      you would just be able to repurpose the way you think logically into something else. I’d say you would be more ahead than a lot of others in a catastrophic scenario!