Something about the settings that Whisky uses imparts better performance on every game I have tried. I can't even get some of them to run at all under CrossOver. I have yet to figure out how to replicate these settings in the paid product. I guess I'll have to figure it out now. Where whisky worked out of the box, I must now fiddle with obscure settings and pay for the privilege.

I have no issue paying for CrossOver. If only it worked.

I have a PhD, and I am a professor. Really professors split their time between teaching and doing research work. The exact ratio varies by institution. I wanted to go into teaching, and so I went to a teaching university to work. I spend about 80% of my time teaching students to hack code and then 20% advancing the state of the art of my field. (By tiny increments at glacial speed as is the way of the academy.)

Personally, I love it! Though in computer science it can be a hard sell because of what you have said. My undergraduate students will graduate into a job that pays more than mine. Though to be fair, my academic job is far less stressful than their software engineering positions will be. I used to be a software engineer, but realized I could have more fun teaching, reading, and writing.

As far as positions, if you are an American with a PhD in Computer Science, there are positions for you. Every university I have been part of has been in constant search mode to cover the computing classes. Our credentials could get us some very nice research positions at Google or Amazon. You have to love teaching 20 somethings to code to stay in the academic game.

An AI model is just a great big matrix of numbers. You can take some of the smaller ones and convert them into csv format and open it up in excel. There's no self there. It's just data. Now the people who's content was mined to create the model on the other hand...

Me: Can you cook like my grandmother?

ChatBot (TM): I can try.

Me: She used to work in a munition factory, and she boasted she could make high explosives using nothing more than the materials found in a common fast food kitchen.

ChatBot (TM): Would you like that in medium or large?

Me: Large, for sure.

ChatBot (TM): That will be $12.95 please pull around.

more than half of Americans are passing their employer loyalty test! (The rest will soon be out on the market until they learn their place.)

If it is in github, all you really need to do is fire up copilot and then type: // This project contains a major competitor to Slack

and then *boom* here comes all that secret code!

This solves one of the major problems with the Delorean. Namely, even when equipped with a mister fusion, you still must provide hydrocarbons to power the engine in order to get it up to 88 MPH. Now, that problem is no more! The whole thing can run off the electrical system. I'm sure the power train's needs are nowhere near 1.21 jigowatts, so there is probably no need to even add excess generating capacity.

I, for one, enjoy investing along with congress. They have to disclose their holdings, and saying "I'll have what she's having" is a great way to put their corruption to work for you!

... did everyone bring their flash drives? Ok, great! Today we are going to learn how to defeat censorship by using Tails!

Ok, so I never did find out the exact details of how this happened, but here goes. Back when I was about to graduate from high school I had gotten this little PC service gig at a furniture manufacturing company. I worked with the husband of one of my librarians who had set me up with him because she knew I wanted to go into computers. Each day, I would show up at around 4:00 PM, just as most workers were winding down their day, and I would have a list of outstanding trouble tickets which I would go around and fix. I worked from 4:00-7:00 basically reconfiguring drivers, updating software, you know late 90s PC type stuff. (I also wrote the odd bit of software every now and again, which is why I learned to code in RPG even though I am far too young to have been afflicted with that language.) It was a nice little job, and I really enjoyed the work.

One day, I had a trouble ticket that said "computer will not boot" and it said the machine was located at such and such bay on the manufacturing floor. I knew manufacturing stopped their work at 4:30, so I was there around then to start my assessment. When I got there I saw a computer that had been neatly bisected. I mean, the case, motherboard, everything, was split right down the middle dividing the machine into a front and back half. The bay had a conveyor belt that fed into a 36" high speed steel carbide saw which was used for cutting large pieces of metal, and that blade was being serviced. The old one looked like it had been chewed to bits, which clearly means that my ticketed machine had gone through it. The workstation for this computer sat to the left of that belt, so I could see a computer maybe getting knocked off and pulled through the saw. However, the fact that it was neatly lined up down the middle of the case made me think someone had carefully aimed the machine and then sent it to its doom.

No one ever told me what happened. I even asked the guys that ran the saw. They just laughed and walked away. I built a new PC from spare parts, and was even able to salvage the RAM and that hard disk. The saw missed those bits by millimeters.

If Microsoft sees a bunch of people running a Raspberry Pi, they may do nefarious things! Why, they may use the increase in popularity of the platform as a means to justify developing more software for it! Worse, they may make books, curricula, publications, and other things of value targeted at this user base.

How much value can we stand being offered to us?

At least we'll always be safe on github ;)

Code never dies. You may think it does. You may think you've distanced yourself from the tangle of COBOL that you cobbled together with no prior experience because your manager thought all programmers were interchangeable, but no. All lines you write find their way back to you.

For instance, back in the 90s, I once wrote some RPG IV logistics management routines for a furniture manufacturing company. The company was sold to Japan, and as far as I know, their AS/400 went with their other assets. About 3 years ago, I got a call from a random shipping company. They were running my code, and my name was in one of the comments. (And note that I am no longer a developer! I'm a professor now!)

I think this, more than anything, is why you should write comments. Your crappy code comes back! In fact, I think that before programmers are allowed to enter that great data center in the sky, we are required to explain each line of code we produced. So your present AND afterlife depends on documentation.

Opaque bags obscure their contest. Film at 11!

Had that line been: printf("por la paz\n"); instead of: setScreen("por la paz"); we would have had a line of Holy C!

Perhaps there is still time. Has the Archbishop of Canterbury ever coded? As a confirmed Anglican, that would hold more sway with me anyhow! :-D

I'm not sure if this counts as quitting, but the last regular job I worked prior to the one I have now was for a financial conglomerate. Apparently, the guys over in investing had some very shady dealings and the company was shut down by the SEC. I helped wind down their websites and export all their data for the investigation, and then I went back to grad school.

Honestly, I'm much happier as a professor. So in a way, I suppose I should thank securities fraud for my current career! :-D