I'm not sure I'd call all algorithm's "math". That's a stretch. And it isn't science, most dev debates are over how maintainers' heads work, usually without first doing experiments, not about the external world.

They should call a typical 4 year degree in such "Information Systems Engineering" (ISE), but it doesn't sound as a high-brow, meaning universities that use Computer Science can charge more. Name-Games.

Anyhow, it's had cyclical demand at least since the IT slump of the early 80's, sometimes called the "video game slump"*, then the "Glasnost slump" of early 90's (inspiring movie Falling Down), then the dot-com bust of early 2000's, and now the "AI confusion slump" for lack of a better term, as co's are hesitant to hire not knowing who or what AI will replace in a few years.

There would have been a slump around 2008 being the entire economy was in the shits, but the smart-phone boom smoothed it over. But in general it's roughly on a decade cycle.

* Even though a specific industry may be the first to slump, it often spreads to all of IT, as devs exiting the specific industry will accept peanuts to switch domains. Unemployed people are desperate. BeenThereDoneThat.

Addendum: note I'm not endorsing MS's "fix", only saying users have an option, albeit, not a good one.

Ha ha, Kudos!

Did you explicitly encounter and argue with them after you started your 7:01 AM performances, or did they simply get a clue?

That revenue may be from illegals bribing ICE to look the other the way. Worked for my friend. They wired their shirt so that when their arms are moved back into handcuff position, cash slides up from their front pocket.

There is a reinforced vertical slit on the inside of the pocket. When arms are stretched back, a string going from each arm tied just above elbows then grows taunt, pulling a loop-pin threaded through the pocket slit up.

The other side of the pin is attached to a half-cut envelope "cup" holding a cash-stack. The taunt string thus pulls the pinned cash envelope upward, and partly out of the pocket so it's visible to ICE. If called over the strings, my friend just claims it's an anti-pick-pocket device. Quite clever, I must say.

(P.S. Don't ask if I'm trolling, I won't answer.)

Stubborn and drunk people often enjoy noise but don't realize that neighbors don't.

Cats in heat don't help either, sound like somebody is torturing a baby.

Yes they can: buy a new @#&!% PC

Millions of Windows 10 users will not upgrade and will not pay the yearly security patch fee, and will start to get infected.

Will MS say "you're on your own, too bad" and let mass chaos happen, hurting MS's reputation (fair or not), or will they back down and give security updates free?

Promises are like shit: everybody makes them and most stink badly.

> What does location have to do with this discussion?

They get the degree in USA and return to a place where it's valued more.

> Sorry but that's horseshit.

The thing is, advanced degrees are preferred overseas for even non-R&D positions. It's not about the number of R&D jobs.

There are stupid regulations in our neighborhood holding us back. I'd rather not pay for a battery pack, just the panels. It would cost us roughly half as much. But we also want to use our OWN power if the grid goes down, which it does often, but regulations forbid that: we must buy a battery pack to have that ability.

I realize a battery pack gives us off-hour power if the grid goes down, but since it's only a spare, we don't care that it would only work during the day. It would be enough to keep our food frozen and charge our phones. (Because normally our excess power would go into the grid, the power company could have central batteries to store that power for off-hours.)

Many suspect it's power co's bribing these restrictions in place, not regulation by "devious socialists".

I always thought most Masters and PhD's were foreign students intending on returning home after they graduate. Other nations value those degrees relative to 4-year-degree much more than the USA does, for good or bad.

Big degrees are a status symbol and corporate bragging point in many countries. "We have more PhD's than our competitor" works as a selling point in business-to-business transactions.

US companies generally see them as overqualified for the actual positions they have available, meaning they'd have to pay them more to do rather mundane things, like upgrading their network, and not inventing network protocols or whatnot.

Most work is not cutting edge R&D. Sure, their R&D departments will have advanced degrees, but that's usually a small percent of a typical co's staff.

un-Hinged.

No, because our porn laptops will get eaten.

I remember noticing such in their cable channel, but not so much the print edition.