@pikhq I have had ~25 years coding professionally. The first job I had beat all the love for it out of me. I partially regained that when I learnt #Python 15 years ago. Lately I've realised that most of my jobs were BS to make a rich guy richer.
The ethical places I've chosen to work lately bring interesting coding, but also some tedious grind. I despise AI, but I'm encouraged to use it to get things done quickly. We all have bills to pay and sadly caring doesn't pay them. #capitalism
"The etymology of the word hoard," said the dragon, "has not changed much. It has long referred to a secret and well-guarded collection of coins or valuables - but it may also refer to anything a dragon chooses to hoard. The nearby goblin village treats me like a god and makes offerings to me, so I have extended my protection to them. Therefore, you can say that I hoard my horde hoard."
"So they debase themselves for you?"
"No. My horde hoard," said the dragon, "has never whored."
I did not have Trump killing the Fortran 77 compiler industry on my bingo card.
(The F77 compiler industry is entirely subsidised by the DOE, because they have a codebase written in F77 that, by law, cannot be modified unless its revalidated. It can be revalidated only by modelling a nuclear bomb exploding then actually exploding one and seeing whether they are the same. They would love to move it to F90 or newer but can't as long as the test-ban treaty is in effect.)
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