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How many Lemmy users are non-technical background? (programming.dev)

submitted 1 year ago by techconsulnerd@programming.dev to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I think most all of us here on Lemmy are people with technical background. Most of my professional contacts remained using Reddit, Twitter and even excited when Threads launched.

If you are non-tech background, please comment and share what you do for life.

If you have tech background, upvote this to help promote this post so that we can find more non-tech users on Lemmy.

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[–] ChuckLopez@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Airline pilot. Surprisingly low technical knowledge required considering how computerized airplanes are.

[–] techconsulnerd@programming.dev 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Airplanes tech is designed easy to use for the pilot. You wouldn't want to debug an error during a flight mid-air.

[–] ChuckLopez@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Very true. It does very occasionally do some strange things, but then we just either disengage the autopilot, or change modes to something simpler while we try and figure out what went wrong (it’s almost always that we’ve made a mistake).

[–] mrmanager@lemmy.today 2 points 1 year ago

I would expect that software to be very well tested. Not like Microsoft Windows. :)

[–] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

"Wait, what's wrong with our malloc() implementation??" - screams whilst flying over the Pacific