Right. We understand that it's the opposite way where you live, in Russia, but we do, on occasion, try to make it this way in the US.

Should I offer that he's "virtue signalling"?

And AI is *worse*?

Ten or so years ago, I was looking for
      men's boots -women
And on the return, there was a sponsored ad on the right side for "woMENs boots" (the men, that I've capitalized, was rather bolded).

Give me a *Nix text editor with Bief emulation mode.

EMACS - as my buddy, Don Richey, the senior systems and networking admin I was working with the end of the nineties put it, "EMACS, the windowing operating system masquerading as a text editor".

I do, eventually, manage to remember how to get *out* of emacs when I foolishly invoke it.

Yep. Using more tokens (I will *not* use *xxxing") as a yardstick? There is *zero* difference between what - who was it, forty year ago, who wrote that lines of code does *not* equal productivity.

Of planning a theme to your kid's birthday party? You mean, other than cake and cookies with lots of sugar, so that they leave footprints on the ceiling?

"Mental work"? Really? Maybe she should have a job as a telephone cleaner, per Doug Adams.

So, back doors in the hardware, firmware, and o/s.

1) the tobacco industry
2) the petrochemical industry
3) the auto industry...

I was using OpenOffice, then went to LibreOffice when it forked.

I've *never* had a problem with a) sending a resume, b) writing reports, and c) now that I'm a writer, sending queries, mss, and dealing with copy-edited changes. No complaints from whoever I was sending them to, who are, presumably, using M$ Office.

Jeezuz, incel, are you 16, and clearly *terrified* of GIRLS.

Btw, my daughter, a programmer for Boeing, is a far better programmer than you dream of being.

Yes, I want to get back to the Moon and *stay*. Sure, send me up there.

But...two years. Before he's out.

Fact: they pushed the launch of the Challanger, rather than wait, because Reagan wanted to talk about it in his State of the Union speech.

The ashes of my late ex, an egnieer at the Cape for 17 years, are spinning...

Send the wolves to the construction site...

Friedmanite MBA, outsource everything.

Wait, you mean the company we outsourced to has raised their prices to higher than we were paying for in-house? Why on earth would they do that (other than ROI for them)?

The Batman: "investors are a superstitious and cowardly lot".

Meanwhile, Mu$k admits that SpaceX is $40B in debt for AI chips, and access to capital is drying up.

As for "investing" in Anthropic? To steal Charlie Stross' comment on crypto, "quick, invest now, or you'll miss your chance to lose everything."