I think you're misreading the intent. This isn't random mockery by individuals, shared with their friends for fun, this is a focused disinformation campaign being targeted through western communication channels. China is concerned about what it might mean geopolitically if AI turns out to be as significant as it might, and the US wins the AI race. This is an effort to slow AI development. A small and opportunistic one, probably not part of the core strategy, but a cheap, easy one that might have some beneficial effect.

I suppose, though I've never worked in any company that evaluated on LoC. I hear they exist, but I've never seen it... and I've probably worked for two dozen different companies, in a wide variety of industries (I was a contractor for a good chunk of my career).

Every nation does this, they mock the failures of their adversaries. We do it constantly relating to China and Russia. So what?

Cool to see you admit to crime in public

The "Seasoned Professional" code isn't hard to read. It's long because it includes a (very minimal) custom string class. That's something no one should do today (or any time in the last 20 years or so), but it was commonly necessary when writing C++ in the 90s. The STL came out in the mid 90s but wasn't available in many environments for most of a decade afterwards. Of course it would be dumb to write a string class just to write a Hello World program, but if your program used more than a few strings it was a good idea.

The BASIC -> Pascal -> LISP -> C -> C++ progression is very much what most programmers who grew up in the 70s and went to college in the 80s went through, which dates the joke. It was exactly my experience, except that my university didn't do LISP.

The current world is as if somebody freed all the Batman villains to run the companies, government, and wars.

It's monkeys flinging poo on the front page.

Very wealthy monkeys.

Or immigration in general.

The major advantage is being able to use an engine that's worthless for acceleration, e.g. Atkinson cycle. All ICEs are most efficient at a specific point on the torque/RPM chart so that's not the differentiator.

Regen braking is the biggest benefit in the city. It's essentially irrelevant everywhere else, but whether it matters most or not depends on where you're driving.

Nothing could be more compatible with American crony capitalism than just continually building retirement homes in SD and sending poor old people there to die. But they will need to find some way to give out some nursing degrees.

True, because they will never have any self-awareness in SD or any other flyover state. They will cry and complain about how they can't attract these professionals but they won't make any changes to the shitty society that drove those people away in the first place.

There are people who would prefer the weather there, but still won't move there because they don't want to deal with the provincial hicks in sticks bullshit. THAT is the non-starter, which as you said, is not going to change.

Wow, only $551/mo? I see silver premiums as high as $900 being paid for by APTC. It's a good thing we did obamacare instead of Medicare for all! Otherwise, how would those poor insurance company shareholders become richer?

What? Yes, of course they will.

You mean by raising salaries? Muppet.

Mouse buttons and config dialogs are both confusing to you but I'm getting worse?

Boosters are risking their freedom and even their lives. If it was easier for them to find work then they'd do legitimate work instead of boosting. Selling at flea markets is a job itself, so they're clearly willing to work.