2025-12-24 12:42 UTC
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@ocratato@discuss.systems 2025-12-24 12:56
@hazelweakly I am quite certain that the "Computer Science" qualifier is redundant.
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@dequbed@mastodon.chaosfield.at 2025-12-24 13:16
@hazelweakly The third hardest is I presume then to get people in tech to understand that 90% of all ‘technical’ problems are instead socio-political ones and that neither political nor social problems have technical solutions?
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@pvdrijst@mastodon.social 2025-12-24 13:37
@hazelweakly There's no C in IT
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@fabos@der.cyberterror.ist 2025-12-24 13:46
@hazelweakly@hachyderm.io human communication is important?!?
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@nicksilkey@hachyderm.io 2025-12-24 13:52
@hazelweakly Business School as well, Hazel! 😉✌️
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@dianshuo@mstdn.io 2025-12-24 14:12
@hazelweakly can I venture a 3) not every goddamn thing is a tech problem.
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@GrandTheftUrkel@mastodon.social 2025-12-24 15:17
@hazelweakly You forgot: 3. Off-by-one errors
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@401matthall@mastodon.xyz 2025-12-24 15:52
@hazelweakly Hey... We have the same scars! <3
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@webshinra@pouet.chapril.org 2025-12-24 16:03
@hazelweakly TBH the first problem in any field is always humans.
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@antdude@mastodon.social 2025-12-24 16:27
@hazelweakly it's worse for me with my disabilities:(
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@pseudonym@mastodon.online 2025-12-24 17:02
@hazelweakly I thought the two hardest computer science problems were: 1) naming things 2) cache invalidation 3) off by one errors (To be clear, I fully agree with the "communication" point. Just couldn't pass up the set up for a joke.)
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@deliverator@infosec.exchange 2025-12-24 18:11
@hazelweakly I fully admit to HATING the mandatory "arts" courses (English lit, sociology, history, etc) I had to do as part of my uni degree. If I were doing it now I would probably have chatgpt'ed my way through most of the essay writing. Which is what I worry is happening with the next generation 😬 I'm at the point in life/career where I realize these were actually really useful. how do we actually illustrate the value of these subjects to future generations? For me I know part of the issue was time management - trying to focus on reading a book and reflecting on it while also juggling all the "engineering" course work. Separate them into their own year/semester?
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@skry@mastodon.social 2025-12-24 18:18
@hazelweakly 3. Binary thinking
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@hazz223@mstdn.social 2025-12-24 18:32
@hazelweakly something ironic about tech enabling such fast commutation, while really sucking at using it appropriately / at all 😅
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@otherdog@mastodon.social 2025-12-24 20:38
@hazelweakly Absolutely One Hundred Percent.
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@craignicol@glasgow.social 2025-12-24 22:44
@hazelweakly see also: the most important language to know in computer science is your own native tongue. (Or whatever your organisation uses to communicate)
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@linear@nya.social 2025-12-24 18:10
@hazelweakly@hachyderm.io i think that might actually just be one problem
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@demofox@mastodon.gamedev.place 2025-12-25 01:23
@hazelweakly@hachyderm.io tech problems are usually people problems. Totally agree.
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@Blueteamsherpa@infosec.exchange 2025-12-25 01:36
@hazelweakly@hachyderm.io I thought the two hardest problems in computer science were: 1. Human communication 2. Getting people in tech to believe that human communication is important 3. Off by one errors.
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@babble_endanger@freeradical.zone 2025-12-25 02:00
@hazelweakly@hachyderm.io Getting powerful people to understand that humans matter lol
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@wouter@pleroma.debian.social 2025-12-25 07:15
@hazelweakly@hachyderm.io Amen. The second is a special case of the first though?
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@binford2k@hachyderm.io 2025-12-25 11:44
@hazelweakly@hachyderm.io literally had this exact conversation earlier today
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@GreenSkyOverMe@ohai.social 2025-12-25 15:01
@hazelweakly@hachyderm.io Word!
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@gnaddrig@mastodon.social 2025-12-25 19:07
@hazelweakly@hachyderm.io @wkfry@mastodon.social Spot on 😁
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@ZoidbergForPresident@kolektiva.social 2025-12-25 19:38
@hazelweakly@hachyderm.io I would have put them the other way around but whatev' :p
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@listrophy@ruby.social 2025-12-25 22:40
@hazelweakly@hachyderm.io happy to see this format is continuing ☺️ I deleted my Twitter account, but the wayback machine has it: https://web.archive.org/web/20190502024721/https://twitter.com/listrophy/status/876129823130869760
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@xris@layer8.space 2025-12-26 00:18
@hazelweakly@hachyderm.io 3. Off by one errors
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@onekind@beige.party 2025-12-26 03:30
@hazelweakly@hachyderm.io Yes, strongly agreed, and the replies to your toot are really good evidence of #2.
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@evamik@uwu.mikkonen.com 2025-12-26 11:54
@hazelweakly@hachyderm.io "We can automate that with a simple bash script"
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@zarchasmpgmr@infosec.exchange 2025-12-27 03:53
@hazelweakly@hachyderm.io 3. off-by-one errors
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@hari_seldon@fosstodon.org 2025-12-27 12:55
@hazelweakly@hachyderm.io I got in tech because I thought that tech could create wonderful ways to communicate and interact with people all over the world. Then SN was created.
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@wilander@mastodon.social 2025-12-27 21:32
@hazelweakly@hachyderm.io I see what you did there. 👍🏼
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@mahryekuh@hachyderm.io 2026-02-04 11:23
@hazelweakly@hachyderm.io @anna@mathstodon.xyz It feels to me that point 2 has a root in the fact that CS is very (cis) male-dominated, where communication gets filed away under “soft skills”, which are associated with women and deemed less important (misogyny). Edit: I’ve noticed this issue mostly with older generations, not so much millennials.
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@Vaneshi@bitbang.social 2026-02-04 11:50
@hazelweakly@hachyderm.io The "stop showing off how many emails a second you can fire off and pick up the god damn phone" problem.
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@farbenstau@infosec.exchange 2026-02-04 20:42
@hazelweakly@hachyderm.io And the four hardest problems in Computer Science are 1. Human communication 2. Getting people in tech to believe that human communication is important 3. Avoiding off-by-one errors
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@yeahyeahyens@det.social 2026-03-20 10:23
@hazelweakly@hachyderm.io They are putting more effort into automating communication and having computers handle it than into acknowledging that it is essential for human coexistence
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@s427@lou.lt 2026-03-20 23:53
@hazelweakly@hachyderm.io or getting people in tech to believe that humans are important
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@janneke@todon.nl 2026-04-11 12:13
@hazelweakly@hachyderm.io The third and fourth hardest problems would be 3. Making all software free. 4. Getting people to understand that all software must be free. #FreeSoftware
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@faduda@mastodon.ie 2026-04-11 12:39
@hazelweakly@hachyderm.io 0. Getting people in tech to believe that human beings are important.
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@StarkRG@myside-yourside.net 2026-04-12 06:32
@hazelweakly@hachyderm.io "Hey, we made a technology that communicates exactly the way I think humans do, and does things without argument or discussion, let's bet the entire industry on it and try to force it into every facet of modern civilization so it becomes necessary." "That's really not how people communicate, though." "See, this is the problem with human communication. I asked the thing and it said it was a great idea. You know what? You're fired."