Any party that makes the trains run on time seems worth considering. </sarcasm>

It's different than my job at my current company. I don't think I'm going to get fired. And I recently asked for time off after finishing a tough release.
My company has zero layoffs as a KPI that the CEO and board committed to shortly after some very difficult layoffs 15+ years ago.
It flip side means it is difficult to get hiring reqs approved and the interview process is long. And the recruiting department is short staffed, so candidates don't get regular updates on the interview process. A lot of them drop out because they can get interviewed and hired by another company faster than going from phone screen to in-person interview at my company.

Good first principle and good foundations are more important that domain knowledge.

Some CS departments started in math department. But more common these days, at least in the US, is they are an extension of engineering. Probably because there isn't a huge difference between digital design and hardware description language (HDL) than with the coding that computer science and software engineering does.

I would prefer if CS was more in the vein of Knuth when it comes to approach to theory and Wirth when it comes to application. Unfortunately having great educators as examples wasn't sufficient enough for CS programs to align on effective teaching. Nor have CS programs really aligned on the scope of their own programs. It's not hard for me to pick two Universities that have little overlap in their main CS track after the second year.

Also, for the most part...a degree is MOSTLY to get your foot in the door right out of school and starting out.

After a few years....you then are dependent upon experience and contacts you've made to get better jobs that pay significantly more.

Why would you think you want to work for someone with arbitrary hiring criteria irrelevant to your actual abilities?

Money.

I mean, that IS the reason people work...right?

I mean hell, if they paid me $300K/yr to scrape dead cats off the road, I'd switch careers in a New York minute...

College is about learning to think.

Partially.....but in these modern times, college isn't JUST about the higher eschelons of thought....it is also training for jobs.

You learn chemistry to doing chemistry things, you learn engineering to learn engineering things ...you learn biochemical lab work to learn biochemistry.

Sure, you need to learn to reason, etc....but it is far from a pure form of education for education's sake and learning to think, you ARE there to learn real skills...at least the ones hoping to actually earn top $$ when they graduate.

That's why the majoring in non-binary trans Eskimo communism studies really isn't the best idea of how to spend your hard earned $ for school.

If you want to solve difficult problems, simply hire mathematicians. In academics, the Math department has its house in order. But Compsci departments vary so much between different universities that I start interviews of NCG with some really basic questions that anyone in the field should know.

For example, I might start with a linked list, an interrupt handler (ISR), and a semaphore/mutex/threading problem. If you can do 2 out of 3, then that's a good start. If you can't do any one then I recommend to the HM to pull the plug and skip the remaining interviewers.

But if you can already do a bunch of stuff in Matlab that I can't do. And you seem to be interested in C++ (or whatever we're using). Then I have no problem letting you figure out the rest on your own. The CS part of the j ob isn't really hard, not at the practical application level.

It's a very short-sighted strategy.

Employees are a money making machine, you feed money into payroll and you get work of more value out of it. Apply that work to your business goal and that's profit. Assuming you have the machine tuned up and running properly. (that's always the rub, isn't it)

It's tough to make plans when you are never sure if you'll get cut. It makes people not want to take vacations or spend too much time with their family.

Fossil fuels are such a pain to deal with geopolitically as well. Nobody is likely to invade in order to steal my sunlight. You almost need a huge standing army to have any influence on fossil fuel prices.

Pretty much every organization that accumulates more power than the people will take control. It's almost impossible to peacefully hold onto a democracy for any length of time.

If your using AI to process data, you deserve to be audited to verify responsibile behavior. Civil liability is not the same as criminality, and a presumption of innocence is not how it works. Nor is executing a regulation statute the same as assuming guilt.

I feel like you really went off the rails with your argument.

I'm pretty certain an electric motorcycle will be at least as dangerous as a gas one.

That just wouldn't cut it.

Part of the motorcycle experience is the visceral feeling you get with the engine rumbling beneath you....the sound, the smells. Also, the connection to the machine with the gear changing, engine braking...clutch, etc.

You feel connected to the road more....

There is a lot of things that make riding an ICE motorcycle enjoyable and a true experience for the rider today....a motorcycle is NOT just about transportation from A to B.

Hell, some days I get up early on Sunday morning before traffic hits (In the New Orleans area...on Sundays you can often have the roads to your till about 11am.

But I'll get up early, gear up and just "ride".....with no set destination in mind. I'll ride familiar roads....I may veer off and explore roads unknown...I just ride.

I saw your reply to someone else and no....adding "speakers" to simulate the sound just isn't going to cut it.

If the only choices I was was an electric "motorcycle"...I'd like not bother anymore...at least half the experience that makes it fun and give one a zen feeling, would be gone.

I think I've got an excellent chance of being able to ride my normal motorcycle till I'm too old to do so...gas isn't likely to disappear in my lifetime, nor will ICE transportation....especially not in the US.

But if it does happen, I do feel sorry for those in the future that can never experience it.

WHAT is right there on video? That is NOT one of Zelensky's bodyguards. That's a random soldier from the 25th Separate Secheslav Airborne Brigade, which recaptured Izyum, during Zelensky's visit to celebrate the victory. Do you think bodyguards spend all their time taking selfies with the person they're protecting? Grow some common sense circuits in your brain. And it's not like Zelensky was handing the man an award with the patch prominently featured in front of the camera while he received it or anything. The Russian volunteer ranks are absolutely littered with Nazis.

What, you mean like the Russian governor of occupied Donetsk outright giving an award to a guy with a Totenkopf patch? Or all of the numerous Russian officials who have praised or given awards to the puppy-eating, unabashed Nazi, Milchakov?

Also, contrary to the misinfo sites you read, that was not a photo of "one of Zelensky's bodyguards". That was from his visit to Izyum where he was posing with random soldiers from the 25th Separate Secheslav Airborne Brigade to celebrate the retaking of the city from the Russians. That's why everyone has their phone out to take selfies.

Stalin was perfectly happy to ally with Hitler for the conquest of eastern Europe. The USSR only turned "anti-Nazi", not for ideological reasons, but because the Nazis betrayed them. Today in Russia, "Nazi" is used as a general insult for any external perceived enemy of the state, with any actual connection to Nazism not being at all required. Yet actual support for the actual principles of fascism within Russia is well tolerated. For example, Putin's good friend Dmitri Rogozin, now governor of occupied Zaporozhye Oblast, is absolutely a fascist, including speaking at a far-rally surrounded by people doing Nazi salutes under a only slightly modified Nazi flag, among so, SO many other things.

In most countries, the saying with respect to WWII is "Never Again". In Russia, it's "We Can Repeat It!" (Mozhem povtorit!).