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2024-01-17 Economy

The white-collar class derided mass layoffs among the blue-collar workers. It's about to feel their pain

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Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-01-17 02:40|| || Front Page|| [43 views ] Top

#1 Well, they're about the reap the 'fruits' of allowing primary and secondary education to be contorted into a feeder system for universities. Similar in the manner that those same authors who contorted the socialists welfare system into an anti-family/anti-male subculture that breeds feral youths, crime and destruction of cities.

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-01-17 07:16|| 2024-01-17 07:16|| Front Page Top

#2 "Learn to code"

AI snatched that one away...

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-01-17 07:50|| 2024-01-17 07:50|| Front Page Top

#3 I taught programming for 40 years. There are many people who cannot code.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2024-01-17 08:39|| 2024-01-17 08:39|| Front Page Top

#4 Don't worry, the Gov will decide these are 'essential' workers and can't be laid off. Large numbers will be paid to do nothing. Just like they are now.

Posted by ed in texas 2024-01-17 09:12|| 2024-01-17 09:12|| Front Page Top

#5 There are many people who cannot code.

8 Common Things Non-Coders Don’t Understand About Coding

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Posted by Skidmark 2024-01-17 09:50|| 2024-01-17 09:50|| Front Page Top

#6 Re: #3

35 yrs banging bits. RPG, Fortran, Assembler, Cobol....

Coding isn't that hard, figuring out, and getting agreement on what it's supposed to do?? That's hard.

Posted by AlanC 2024-01-17 09:52|| 2024-01-17 09:52|| Front Page Top

#7 Computers do what you tell them to do, not what you want them to do.

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-01-17 09:58|| 2024-01-17 09:58|| Front Page Top

#8 Bread and circuses coming our way soon.

Posted by Tom 2024-01-17 11:32|| 2024-01-17 11:32|| Front Page Top

#9 Well, if they're good looking enough, they can always fall back on Myfans. (cough)

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-01-17 15:53|| 2024-01-17 15:53|| Front Page Top

#10 Coding is easy. It’s debugging the logic so that it actually runs in the way intended that’s really, really hard.

My baby brother, the supercomputer perfesser, says that debugging is the fun part.

Posted by trailing wife 2024-01-17 21:51|| 2024-01-17 21:51|| Front Page Top

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