Entering your pro-Soviet era

I watched Casablanca recently again and was struck by how all of the main leads would have been persecuted in the USA after the war for "Premature Anti-Fascism". Even the Corrupt French Cop.

I would much rather give to someone who is a grifter, than let someone in need go without. The grifter will have their account, with the revolution or with god or with their own soul.

Skill issue, I would simply have the goddess of love come down at the end and fix everything.

That is exactly what they are. Literally, formally fascists.

I once again point out that both parties long for fascism. The GoP for the bluster of Mussolini, the Dems for the Hall Monitor Tyranny of a Salazar. Their Salazar just gave out an unsanctioned hall pass and they're reeling.

It's awful but it's the awful of a King Lear fucking over everything he built, rather than the bloodless genocidal accounting of the Lanyard class.

If you want an image of the future it's a 500 year old millennial that did a code academy course once and can reinstall win xp being the court mage-philosopher in the post climate apocalypse wasteland.

It'll work but AI generally makes workable code that looks well formed but is in fact undocumented spaghetti code.

I would rely on it only for simple regex and even then only in non critical tasks. An AI is a particularly annoying intern and nothing more.

Of course these idiots are gonna use it to refactor segments of 50 year old legacy code originally written in FORTRAN.

Also you need to know regex for the same reason you need to know the fundamental theorem of calculus even though almost none ever needs it to actually solve anything.

Look for medium-sized companies with original founders and aging consumer bases.

A fun one to try and find when job hunting is the project lead for a project that requires approval from both c-level and other departments. This will never be approved and suggested changes will take months to percolate through, leaving your team free to do whatever the hell they want.

Lol, no. The person who can bullshit the best keeps the job. Valuable people have the self-destructive tendency of delivering honest bad news.

I say this as someone who has both been a valuable employee and managed fairly large departments. And who grew up long before LLMs existed. An important thing to remember is that hiring and firing decisions are generally above the team lead's pay grade, meaning that a bullshitter just has to network upwards.

Sure, cheating at uni will cripple the kids, but only the frontline employees, not those who tip straight into management.

Yeah I read theory https://faculty.georgetown.edu/jod/texts/twain.german.html

Australia has a history of dumb "somebody think of the children" laws that the children bypass within 20 seconds.

Of course I know her, she's me!"

Managers promote those that are seen. They have marketing brain remember, so all they care about is branding. If they chatted with you at a seminar and you bullshit successfully they'll think of you when they shortlist promotions, not the grumpy engineer who is a buzz kill with things like "tech debt is killing us" or "we have two people who can use the backend and one just quit and the other knows we can't fire him so plays WoW classic at work all day."

ACAB (to the bourgeoisie)

Yes, or more properly the severe rationing Castro had to put in place afterwards. That's where the stereotype of people escaping Cuba on rafts comes from.