No, you're showing your overactive imagination. That they were goners is the most likely thing.

Don't know what you're talking about, me and my coworkers had the exact same work before, during and after covid and we did it. We worked on systems that weren't in the company's buildings anyway. No advantage to being present in same cube farm or using online chat & meetings. Sure once ever few months we show up in the colo and work on the gear, that also kept on going.

In short, no way to just draw pay and not do the work.

No arrogance, those of us that can do stuff can still get the remote days

Or is it "Remember the idiots who confused NCAR with NOAA and thought NOAA modeling and forecasting tools would disappear with NCAR."

Like the idiots who think the Department of Education actually educated kids, and don't seem to realize education had higher quality before Carter created that agenda driven propaganda organ in the 1970s.

The fact that you believe they HOPE to accomplish anything tells me all we need to know, you are not interested in a rational discussion of reality but only your romantic notions.

NOAA is not part of NCAR, they do forecasts of weather including hurricanes without it.

are you confused? Those predictions aren't made by NCAR. NOOA is not part of it.

There is zero benefit to the people you mention; learn how things work before making up romantic notions of what NCAR does.

You are hilarious. What have USA policy makers actually done?

You the one with irrelevant romantic notions.

you're funny, what have "policy makers" in USA really done? You don't think other countries have them?

Well, that is the Big Lie (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_lie) being pushes by law enforcement and Law&Order politicians, isn't it? Claiming harsher sentences, more surveillance and more police and police powers would actually improve safety. The reality is they do not.

If you let the police make your laws, then one day you will wake up in a police-state.

Seriously. If you do not actually look at what you buy before doing it, you will get shafted at least on part of your purchases. That insight is as old as humanity. I see some are still ignorant regarding that issue.

We will find out.

Why are we even trying to secure stuff? With hiring processes this extremely broken we could just hand them everything directly.

The problem is most coders were not actually experts before AI. They will be even worse now.

AI also adds a ton of security vulnerabilities, cannot find most of them and makes attackers a lot more productive. The fireworks will be spectacular.

As some people are making very good profits with fixing vibe-"coding" crap now, that is entirely plausible.

To be honest, I care less and less. Blithering criminal idiots fucking everything up and the rest too dumb and incapable to stop them. There is nothing to learn there except that on average, people are completely clueless. I knew that one before.