I'm looking at a company hiring for techs to work on neat aerospace projects.
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I'm looking at a company hiring for techs to work on neat aerospace projects. they're a contractor doing stuff with GPS and calculating orbits and stuff!
and they want you to know Ada. NOPE, EJECT, ABORT, NOT A GOOD JOB
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it's not about the language itself, mind you: Ada is a perfectly fine language, even if I don't know it.
It's that the people who want you to know Ada are the people who thought it should be required for all new programming projects, like the department of defense
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this job listing is trying very hard not to reveal that they want to hire you to make missiles
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kinda like how Uber doesn't advertise any of their jobs as being for Uber's self-driving cab division (you know, the one that has killed at least one person)
they're hiring for a "autonomous ride-hailing service"
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I had a recruiter explain to me that I shouldn’t feel bad to work for them because with my skills I’d make the missiles more accurate and reduce the risk of killing people who weren’t the target…
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@rk I mean, they're not ENTIRELY wrong. making sure it doesn't kill random other people is definitely an improvement, but it's still gonna kill people. that's the job of the thing you're making
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@foone Who has the autonomy? The rider, the hailer, or the driver? :blobcatthinking:
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@riley legally, the driver, because otherwise the company would be in trouble for having killed people
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@foone Ada is quirky, and a bit of a bondage-and-discipliney, but it's not too bad.
Do they have citizenship restrictions or something? I think most Ada-related jobs used to be American-only, and might even require security clearances
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Hahaha! I hadn't heard much mention of ADA since NINETEEN NINETY FIVE!!
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@foone
A work-from-home job (making missiles for DoD) sounds pretty cool...
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@HoustonDog or your conscience!
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I don't work for ABC companies:
AI, Bombs, Crypto.and the annoying thing is that some of these companies know that there's people like me and are trying to hide the fact that they're hiring for ABC jobs
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@foone This but also D (Debt collectors)
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@foone There's a lot of legitimate aerospace work, though. For weird historic and/or contractual reasons, some of this might be Ada-related. I mean, consider how much Ada influences are in both Verilog and VHDL.
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@rinmari good point. I've never seen their jobs cross my job listings, but they'd definitely join the list!
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@foone Do they think that hiding that would trick people into working for them? Like you wouldn't just quit when you found out what they wanted you to work on?
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@sl1 I suspect this is a move being pulled by recruiters. they get paid by how many people they get hired, not if those people are happy and stay
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THE FBI!? in what world would I work for the FBfuckingI?
They delayed my wedding, tried to get me fired, and once mentioned my old 4chan username in a federal trial!
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heh. "AI HW design verification"
I don't want to work for an AI company but I could technically do that one.
Every time they send me a design, I confirm if there's still AI in it, and if so, I fail the verification for that design
