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Ask HN: To anyone who cares to read this. How old are you roughly?
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#23Roughly 40
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#24Close to 50. Been programming for fun since I was 6, for a living since I was 19. And now, thanks to LLMs, I'm thinking of leaving that behind and becoming the world's oldest apprentice electrician.
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#2661, got into computing just after toggle switches, punch cards and paper tape, thank goodness.
I was, however ready to swear on a stack of Bibles in 1981 when I picked my major, that there was no money to be made in software. It looked like shareware was going to take over the world and drive the cost to almost zero.
Moore's law was an awesome ride, and I think we've got at least a 100:1 improvement left in efficiency.
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#28Close to 50. Been programming for fun since I was 6, for a living since I was 19. And now, thanks to LLMs, I'm thinking of leaving that behind and becoming the world's oldest apprentice electrician.
How does one go about finding an apprenticeship electrician position? Is that the regular path in this profession? Become an apprentice first?
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#29Almost 40
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#3071. So far, the oldest to respond.
Only a tiny minority of readers are likely to respond, though. And all you will learn from the responses is the age disribition of that tiny minority! Who knows how well that correlates with the totality of HN users?